The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - iMedia
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opportunities <strong>of</strong> turning him into ridicule in presence <strong>of</strong> his mistress,<br />
and had a scoundrel dog whom he taught to whine in the most ludicrous<br />
manner, and introduced as a rival <strong>of</strong> Ichabod’s, to instruct her in<br />
psalmody.<br />
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Chapter 4<br />
A Frolic at the Van Tassel’s<br />
In this way matters went on for some time, without producing any<br />
material effect on the relative situations <strong>of</strong> the contending powers. On<br />
a fine autumnal afternoon, Ichabod, in pensive mood, sat enthroned on<br />
the l<strong>of</strong>ty stool from whence he usually watched all the concerns <strong>of</strong> his<br />
little literary realm. In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre <strong>of</strong><br />
despotic power; the birch <strong>of</strong> justice reposed on three nails behind the