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Edgar Allan Poe's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By, Edgar Allan Poe is about a man named Icabod Crane who wants to win over a girl named Katrina Van Tassal. Icabod decides to come to Sleepy Hollow to try and get Katrina to be his wife. People are not a big fan of Icabod because he is sneaky and especially because he is a Yankee. Sleepy Hollow's most famous phenomenon is the headless horseman, who is said to be a Solider who lost his head from a cannon ball in the Revolutionary War. He likes to hang out by the church where people say he was buried. Katrina is one of Icabod's students that is 18 years old. He quickly sends out his hand in marriage before anyone else can ask her. The only reason he wanted her is because she comes from a family with a lot
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