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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 : the Isle of Manhattoes and nearby
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 : the Isle of Manhattoes and nearby
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 : the Isle of Manhattoes and nearby
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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 : the Isle of Manhattoes and nearby

    By Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 - Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

      Project Gutenberg's The Isle of Manhattoes and Nearby, by Charles M. Skinner

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Isle of Manhattoes and Nearby Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 2.

      Author: Charles M. Skinner

      Release Date: October 22, 2006 [EBook #6607]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND

                                         By

                                 Charles M. Skinner

      Vol. 2.

      THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY

      CONTENTS:

      Dolph Heyliger

      The Knell at the Wedding

      Roistering Dirck Van Dara

      The Party from Gibbet Island

      Miss Britton's Poker

      The Devil's Stepping-Stones

      The Springs of Blood and Water

      The Crumbling Silver

      The Cortelyou Elopement

      Van Wempel's Goose

      The Weary Watcher

      The Rival Fiddlers

      Wyandank

      Mark of the Spirit Hand

      The First Liberal Church

      THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY

      DOLPH HEYLIGER

      New York was New Amsterdam when Dolph Heyliger got himself born there,—a graceless scamp, though a brave, good-natured one, and being left penniless on his father's death he was fain to take service with a doctor, while his mother kept a shop. This doctor had bought a farm on the island of Manhattoes—away out of town, where Twenty-third Street now runs, most likely—and, because of rumors that its tenants had noised about it, he seemed likely to enjoy the responsibilities of landholding and none of its profits. It suited Dolph's adventurous disposition that he should be deputed to investigate the reason for these rumors, and for three nights he kept his abode in the desolate old manor, emerging after daybreak in a lax and pallid condition, but keeping his own counsel, to the aggravation of the populace, whose ears were burning for his news.

      Not until long after did he tell of the solemn tread that woke him in the small hours, of his door softly opening, though he had bolted and locked it, of a portly Fleming, with curly gray hair, reservoir boots, slouched hat, trunk and doublet, who entered and sat in the arm-chair, watching him until the cock crew. Nor did he tell how on the third night he summoned courage, hugging a Bible and a catechism to his breast for confidence, to ask the meaning of the visit, and how the Fleming arose, and drawing Dolph after him with his eyes, led him downstairs, went through the front door without unbolting it, leaving that task for the trembling yet eager youth, and how, after he had proceeded to a disused well at the bottom of the garden, he vanished from sight.

      Dolph brooded long upon these things and dreamed of them in bed. He alleged that it was in obedience to his dreams that he boarded a schooner bound up the Hudson, without the formality of adieu to his employer, and after being spilled ashore in a gale at the foot of Storm King, he fell into the company of Anthony Vander Hevden, a famous landholder and hunter, who achieved a fancy for Dolph as a lad who could shoot, fish, row, and swim, and took him home with him to Albany.

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