Mystery of the Mill
How Tom Dennis Was a Victim of Rum and Circumstances
by William Edward Penney
A very strange man was old Ichabod Crane,
A queer old fellow was he;
His hair was white and his eyes were black,
And his mouth looked like an expressionless crack
In a piece of old crockery.
At the fool of a hill near his tumbledown mill,
He lived in an old red house;
While no one around, at least above ground,
Had seen on the premises anything ‘round
Save Ichabod and his dog Bowse.
The dog was a great brindle creature, as fierce