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...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the 290 headless horseman, or galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields and...prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut ; and would frighcen them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and with the alarming fact...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes 1 The whip-poor-will is a bird which is only heard at night. It »• ceives its name from its note,...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields and...horseman, or galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometime called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hoilow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft,...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields,...earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world...

...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields,...Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. Here the repeated "and" is an evidence of strength, not of weakness. Irving does not use it because...