The Legend of Sleepy Hollow1980

Vanderhoof:
Remember that big fellow you met this morning?

Ichabod Crane:
Brom Bones.

Vanderhoof:
He figures Katrina's his girl. He catches you looking sideways at her, he's naturally going to tie knots in all your arms and legs... or worse. [nods to memorial stone]

Ichabod Crane:
R.I.P? Brom Bones killed the previous schoolmaster?

Vanderhoof:
Might just as well have. Palmer was never the same after Brom Bones thundered the poor fellow halfway across the country.

Ichabod Crane:
Brom Bones assaulted the schoolmaster just for looking at Miss Van Tassel?

Vanderhoof:
A-salted, a-peppered, and a-roasted him too! Just for reading poetry to Katrina. Course by that time I think Palmer was already a little funny in the head like the other school masters.

Ichabod Crane:
What do you mean?

Vanderhoof:
Three before Palmer, all turned strange before they took off out of here. Course I figured, the ghosts and spirits did it to them.

Ichabod Crane:
Come away with those ridiculous, ridiculous scare stories of yours!

Vanderhoof:
You're just like them others, seems a shame. You fellows with all your book learning, always come up short on common horse sense.