Katrina Van 
 
 
Tassel 
 
 
After E. A. Abbey, Artist 
 
 
 
AMONG the musical discitle~s who assembled one evening in each 
4        week to receive the school-teacher's instrutions in psalmody, was

         Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial

Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a par-

tridge,; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked aA one of her father's peaches,

and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expec7ations.

She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her
dress, 
whicb was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set

off her charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her 
great-great-grandmother ,ad brought over from   Saardam ;   the tempting

stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to
dis- 
play the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. 
                                 Irving's - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

 
 
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