TOP OF A WIND-MILL 115 HENDRICK HUDSON 119 “EVERY MAN WAS ALLOWED TO SLEEP AT HIS POST UNLESS THE WIND BLEW” 123 “A RED MAN CROWNED WITH FEATHERS ISSUED FROM ONE OF THE GLENS” 127 “THEY ONE AND ALL TOOK TO THEIR HEELS, AND SCAMPERED OVER THE BERGEN HILLS” 135 THE BROAD-MOUTHED LAUGHTER OF THE DUTCH NEGROES 139 “MADE THEM DRUNK WITH TRUE HOLLANDS” 143 THE OFFICIAL WEIGHT 145 OLOFFE VAN KORTLANDT 147 TOUGH BREECHES 153 “THEY BADE FAREWELL TO THE GAZING THRONG UPON THE BEACH” 159 “A SHOAL OF JOLLY PORPOISES CAME ROLLING AND TUMBLING BY” 161 “AND TURNING AWAY HIS HEAD, FIRED IT MOST INTREPIDLY IN THE FACE OF THE BLESSED SUN” 163 “ALONG THOSE SHORES” 169 “AND ANON THEY SEEMED SINKING INTO YAWNING GULFS” 171 THE DEVIL SITTING ASTRIDE OF THE HOG’S BACK AND PLAYING ON A FIDDLE 173 TEN BROECK DRYING HIS BREECHES 179 “IN DIM OBSCURITY HE SAW SHADOWED OUT PALACES AND DOMES AND LOFTY SPIRES” 181 MASTER JUET 187 MYNHEER TEN BROECK AS A LAND SURVEYOR 191 THE ARGUMENT 199 THE SECRETARY 201 ST. NICHOLAS 207 COOLING THE ARDOR OF THE ENEMY 209 HANS REINER OOTHOUT 213 “SET LIGHT-MINDED HEARERS IN A ROAR” 223 WOUTER VAN TWILLER 225 THE JUDGMENT OF WOUTER VAN TWILLER 229 THE FIVE BURGERMEESTERS 235 WELL-FED AND ROBUSTIOUS BURGHER 237 “HERE WOULD HE SMOKE HIS PIPE OF A SULTRY AFTERNOON” 243 “THE GOOD ST. NICHOLAS” 245 A COUNTRY MANSION 253 “SOME OLD CRONE OF A NEGRO” 255 “TOOK LEAVE OF THEM WITH A HEARTY SMACK AT THE DOOR” 259