The legend of sleepy hollow
by washington irving
finding the main idea
washington irving wrote "the legend of
sleepy hollow" in 1820. it is a haunting tale
about a thin and timu tercher womed ichabod
crane, who has a terrifying encounter with the
legendary hewlese horseman. in this passage,
ichabod is leaving for a party on an old,
borrowed horse
tehabad was a suitable figure for such a steed,
he rode with short stirrups, which brought his
ichabod crane runs from the
knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his
hewllese ilorseman
sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in
his hand, like a weptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not
unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. a small wool hat rested on the top of his nose,
for so his wanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black cont
fuerimt to the heart