WOLFERT'S ROOST AND OTHER PAPERS NOW FIRST COLLECTED BY WASHINGTON IRVING AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET KE6236 HARVARD 044*219 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. WOLFERT'S ROOST. CHRONICLE I |BOUT five-and-twenty miles from the ancient and renowned city of Manhattan, formerly called New Amsterdam, and vulgarly called New York, on the eastern bank of that expansion of the Hudson known among Dutch mariners of yore as the Tappan Zee, being in fact the great Mediterranean Sea of the New Netherlands, stands a little, old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial was modelled after the gridiron of the blessed St. Lawrence. Though but of small dimensions, yet, like many small people, it is of mighty spirit, and values itself greatly on its antiquity, being one of the oldest edifices, for its size, in the whole country. It claims to be an ancient seat of empire,-I may rather say an empire in itself,—and like |