Ichabod Crane 
 
After E. A. Abbey, Artist 
 
 
 
THE cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. 
        He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long 
        arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, 
feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most 
loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge 
ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked 
like a weather-cock, perched upon his sPindle neck, to tell which way 
the wind blew.   To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a 
windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might 
have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, 
or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. 
 
                            Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy hollow."

 
 
XVIIZ