Comparison: What Is Better Than Sleepy Hollow

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What is better than “Sleepy Hollow” ? Here are some ideas about Sleepy Hollow. Its two men name Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones they both fell in love with a woman name Katrina. Ichabod and Brom have some ways that they are alike but they are different in many many many ways. Lets get into more details about “Sleepy Hollow.” In this parargaph, Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones have their same ways like. The two men had fell in love with a girl name Katrina it was like love at first sight because in paragraph 6, it says, “She soon found fewor in inchabods eyes, not mereley for her beauty but for her vasl inheritance.” In paragraph 8 , it explains how Brom Bone fell in love with Katrina aslo it states, “ When Brom Bones began wooing Katrina,

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