... of our early country. I do believe that each character in the story represents some sort of accurate portrayal by the colonists. In "A Posthumous Writing of Dietrich Knickerbocker", his epigraph reads, "From whence comes Wednesday, that is wodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will keep, unto thylke day in which I creep into my sepulchre" (Irving 1). For him to ... ...

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