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( Republished under the G.N.U License. ) Originally part of Irving's 'The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon' which will also be re-published here shortly. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in its original form is more like a framework for others to work with and expand, which is indeed what has happened, resulting in a recent film which takes the story way beyond what was on the Anglophile's mind when he wrote it. But it is a good tale regardless, and tells more of idleness and ambition than of horror - the young Ichabod wanted everything, the easy way. He never quite managed it.