F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 4

No more than a mile from the small active city of Nyack, on the Hudson
river, and near where the road ago an acute turn and he/she leaves above without breath in the
mountain, lived there, of year 1803, an old honest grower of the
name of Hanz Toodleburg. Hanz was kept in tall respect from his/her neighbors,
very of whom persisted in to pronounce his/her name Toodlebug, and also
electing hog-reefs him/it every year, a honor he would invariably decline.
He did this, he said, out than in comparison to the hard human rights
him gotten married in the district. It didn't care him to Hanz as his/her name it was
pronounced;  neither it ever happened to him that some of his more ambitious
it is probable that descending has called above in a court of law to explain the
circumstances under which their name was changed. I now speak of things
as they was when the old farmers around Nyack were honest and
not suspicious, before Fulton had surprised them with his/her steamboat, or
those Yorkerses Nuovo and eccentric you/he/she had invaded the city, while building castles
neglecting the Tappan Zee and school-houses where the heads of honest
Dutch children were filled with the bad thoughts.

Hanz Toodleburg was short and strong of figure, it had a flood, rotunda face, a
great sincere nose and a small grey eye. There was not indeed, being wrong himself/herself/itself
his/her ancestors in which language that he has spoken whenever every the Dominie paid him/it
a visit that him it rather often did, for Hanz the good humor always had in the
house;  and a bed for an extraneous. In short, it was a boasting of Hanz that
any traveller ever passed his/her house starved, if he knew him/it. And it
it increased his/her importance with neighbors his that he raised more bushels
to the acrid one that some of them, and it sent the best vegetables to the New York
market. More than what, he would tell all the great people the village,
with a sign of his/her head, that he owes a stiver any man he could not pay
before the sun put, and in such way as to bring an astute suggestion that it
it was more than they could do.  The neighbors consulted Hanz pertaining to