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Most of you know I have a soft spot in my heart for that ol' Hessian, named the "commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air." I still religiously watch Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow every Halloween season. (Oh, who am I kidding? I watch it all year!)
I particularly love the above scene because it illustrates how very, very, useless muzzle-loaders were in a desperate, imminent, emergency. The Horseman appears to threaten Katrina's man, Brom Bones, who is overly gifted in bravery, though not in brains, and Brom, seeing the Horseman stalking forward, kneels down to load his rifle...
If you've never had the opportunity to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in its original form, I highly recommend you pick up a copy of this delightful short story with its original watercolors. It tells a much different story than Burton's adaptation, but is no less entertaining for it.
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