这是不是在想，如此诱人的一口很快
发现赞成他的眼睛，尤其是在他访问了她
在她父亲的大厦。老范Baltus流苏是一个完美的
图片的一个蓬勃发展，自得，自由心的农民。他
很少，这是真的，不是他的眼睛发出或他的思想超越
的界限，他自己的农场，但在这些一切
舒适，快乐和幸福的条件。他感到满意，他
财富，而不是为它感到自豪，并激发自己的热情
丰度，而不是他的风格，其中居住。他的
据点位于对银行的哈德森，在一个
这些绿色，庇护，肥沃nooks其中荷兰农民
如此喜欢雏鸟。伟大的榆木树其广泛的传播
分支机构权，脚下的这bubbled了一个春天的
柔软和甜蜜的水，在一个小以及形成每桶;
Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex;
and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon
found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her
in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect
picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. He
seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond
the boundaries of his own farm; but within those everything was
snug, happy and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with his
wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty
abundance, rather than the style in which he lived. His
stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of
those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers
are so fond of nestling. A great elm tree spread its broad
branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the
softest and sweetest water, in a little well formed of a barrel;
