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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.

Found among the papers of the late Didrich Nicarbocka.

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, of dreams that wave before the half-shut-eye,

and of gay castles in the clouds that pass, forever flushing round a summer sky.

In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson,

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