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| WILLIAM THE TESTY | Frontispiece |
| SUNNYSIDE | 1 |
| THE AUTHOR | 9 |
| “AND THAT A GREAT DRAGON OCCASIONALLY SWALLOWS UP THE MOON” | 37 |
| PROFESSOR VON PODDINGCOFT | 43 |
| THE GREAT EGG OF NIGHT | 51 |
| THE GOOD DAME OF NARBONNE IN FRANCE | 53 |
| “MOUNT ASTRIDE OF HIS TAIL, AND AWAY HE GALLOPS IN TRIUMPH” | 57 |
| FOHI THE HISTORIAN | 63 |
| HANS DE LAET | 67 |
| “SAVAGES TO EXTERMINATE” | 70 |
| THE PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA ACCORDING TO PETRI | 77 |
| “AS WHITE BEARS CRUISE ABOUT THE NORTHERN OCEANS” | 81 |
| “IT IS VAIN TO OFFER THEM MONEY; THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT HUNGRY” | 89 |
| “THEY INTRODUCED AMONG THEM RUM, GIN, AND BRANDY” | 95 |
| THE SPANISH HAD THE RIGHT BY GUN-POWDER | 99 |
| THE HEADLESS MEN OF THE MOON VISIT US | 101 |
| “WHO RIDETH ON THE GREAT BEAR AND USETH THE SUN AS A LOOKING-GLASS” | 105 |
| MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER TAKES A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW FROM THE 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 |
| “A VOLUMINOUS DAMSEL, ARRAYED IN A DOZEN OF PETTICOATS” | 265 |
| THE YOUNG GALLANT | 269 |
| KILLIAN VAN RENSELLAER | 273 |
| THE BATTERY | 279 |
| “SCAMPERING FROM THE STORM” | 283 |
| THE YANKEE’S SATURDAY’S DINNER OF DUMB-FISH | 289 |
| TARRED AND FEATHERED | 293 |
| “THE HORRIBLE MELODIES OF SOME AMATEUR, WHO CHOOSES TO SERENADE THE MOON” | 301 |
| “BRISK, LIKELY, PLEASANT-TONGUED VARLETS” | 303 |
| JACOBUS VAN CURLET | 307 |
| THE PROTEST OF JACOBUS VAN CURLET | 311 |
| “HE PROCEEDED ON A LONG SWING-TROT THROUGH THE MUDDY LANES” | 313 |
| THE POET AND HISTORIAN | 319 |
| WILLIAM THE TESTY | 323 |
| THE GREAT SEAL OF THE PROVINCE | 329 |
| KIDNAPPING HOGS | 333 |
| “THE WHOLE GARRISON OF FORT GOED HOOP STRAGGLING INTO TOWN ALL TATTERED AND WAYWORN” | 339 |
| ANTHONY THE TRUMPETER | 347 |
| WILLIAM THE TESTY’S CURE FOR VAGRANCY | 355 |
| STOFFEL BRINKERHOFF | 363 |
Left his lodgings, some time since, and has not since been heard of, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker. As there are some reasons for believing he is not entirely in his right mind, and as great anxiety is entertained about him, any information concerning him left either at the Columbian Hotel, Mulberry Street, or at the office of this paper, will be thankfully received.
P. S.—Printers of newspapers would be aiding the cause of humanity in giving an insertion to the above.
Sir,—Having read in your paper of the 26th October last, a paragraph respecting an old gentleman by the name of Knickerbocker, who was missing from his lodgings; if it would be any relief to his friends, or furnish them with any clue to discover where he is, you may inform them that a person answering the description given, was seen by the passengers of the Albany stage, early in the morning, about four or five weeks since, resting himself by the side of the road, a little above King’s Bridge. He had in his hand a small bundle, tied in a red bandana handkerchief; he appeared to be travelling northward, and was very much fatigued and exhausted.
Sir,—You have been good enough to publish in your paper a paragraph about Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, who was missing so strangely some time since. Nothing satisfactory has been heard of the old gentleman since; but a very curious kind of a written book has been found in his room, in his own handwriting. Now I wish you to notice him, if he is still alive, that if he does not return and pay off his bill for boarding and lodging, I shall have to dispose of his book to satisfy me for the same.
Containing an account of its discovery and settlement, with its internal policies, manners, customs, wars, &c., &c., under the Dutch government, furnishing many curious and interesting particulars never before published, and which are gathered from various manuscript and other authenticated sources, the whole being interspersed with philosophical speculations and moral precepts.
This work was found in the chamber of Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, the old gentleman whose sudden and mysterious disappearance has been noticed. It is published in order to discharge certain debts he has left behind.
SUNNYSIDE.