The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.

         Once upon a time there live a school-master by the name of Ichabod Crane , he was a nice young boy with a big open heart for a lady called Katrina Vantassel , she was a very beautiful girl, that was wealthy too. Katrina had fairly large land out here in New York.


Brom Bones, The worst of them all, makes you itch out of your skin if you think about him, he is a very irascible man. The twist to this story is that he has her heart too, Katrina's that is. They both need to compete for her. The funny thing is, in war, its not about who is " right " its about who is " left " . 


        On a dark, overcast day Ichabod was walking home from a day at school, he was walking down a long slim road, nobody apeared to be on the street, only Ichabod.


          " Gallop, Gallop, Gallop " 
   Horse gallops echoed down the slim dark road, and this startled Ichabod.
     Ichabod sees a man far out in the distance, on a horse. Fog starts to apear making it hard for Ichabod to see where the man has gone.


   The next thing you know Ichabod is looking up to this man, except this is a headless with a pumpkin on his head. Ichabod took this as no joke. " He must be the one who has been killing all of these people lately. " Ichabod thinks in his mind, over and over.


   Now you must of heard cries reverberate through the air, you must of known someone was in deep danger by the tremulous voice you came across. Do not worry ladies and gentleman, i will not go on a tirade to talk about all the things that could have happend, but did not. I do not know if it is because he did not yell loud enough or if he did not entreat well enough, all i can say is that whatever it was, it did not work.


   Ichabod pleaded and pleaded for his life, but the " Headless Horseman " as they call him, had no pity for such a thing like him. To make this less cruel, Ichabod disapeared. 




   Since Ichabod disapeared Katrina Vantassel was forced to marry the abhorent Brom Bones. The idea seemed to haunt Katrina, how could he leave me ? she would wonder.


    Brom Bones was happy about the wedding and had no feeling for what had happend to Ichabod, and that seemed amiss at first. Until there were rumors that Brom Bones acually dressed up as the Headless Horseman to get rid of Ichabod Crane. No one knows the truth.




    That my friends, is The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.

A long way from your heart.

Miranda Anderson Anderson 1

Mrs.Meadows

English E.F

4 october 2011

A long way from your heart.

It was a cold day in New York, and Ethan, Jacob, and I were walking down Broadway. It was pretty chilly outside so we were all wearing hoodie's and long pants. Mom and Dad were eating lunch at Moxie's with D.b's friend parents.

While we were walking down the frosted sidewalk we came across a little sports store. There in the front window, just in the little corner stood a baseball glove, it was not that special, and nobody could really spot it, but Jacob did, and he thought it was special.

“ Hey guys, look at that baseball glove! “ Jacob said enthusiastically.

“ Where is it? “ Ethan said.

“ Right there! The little one in the corner! “

“ Do you want it, bud? “ If you knew Jacob like I knew him you would do anything for him.

“Please! “

Ever since the day that Ethan and I got him the left handed baseball glove, it has been apart of him.

It was his glove, it was the thing that connected me to Jacob. Jacob was my brother, he died from Lukemia when i was thirteen , he was only eleven. Jacob was probably the nicest guy i knew! He has bright firey red hair, and I swear you could see him from a mile away, but now it seems he has faded into dust..

Jacob had a left-handed fielders mitt, he was left handed. The baseball glove has poems written all over it, in green ink. Jacob wrote poems so he would have something to do when nobody was up at bat.

Jacob was the nicest guy i knew, and he never got mad, usually gingers get mad very easily, but not Jacob. Jacob was also unbelievably smart, teachers would call mom telling her how good of a student he was.

After Jacob died I slept in the garage for a while, I even punched all the windows in there, I messed up my hand pretty bad. Now i cant make a complete fist. If you want to know the truth, I don't know why I did it, I just did, it's like i wasn't aware of what i was doing .

After I punched the windows in the garage my parents were going to take me to a Phychoanalist, I can understand why, I mean I don't think it's that normal to go on a rage like that.

My brother was a super nice guy, and that will never change, and when the rain is pouring down, i still feel the hurt and the loss.