If we could but journey back to that remote period in American history, when the city of Manhattan was but a market town...

8 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:36:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- But don't forget over here in the Colonies we've come up with a few of our own.

- How about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed, Black Bart, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone?

- And, of course, the one and only Ichabod Crane.

- Old Ichy, if you recall, was the country schoolmaster, dreamed up by Washington Irving.

- He had a way with a yarn, did Mr. Irving.

- If we could but journey back to that remote period in American history, when the city of Manhattan was but a market town...

- We would discover in the bosom of one of those spacious coves, which indent the shores of the Hudson, the little village of Tarrytown.

- And just beyond, nestled deep in the low, rolling hills, a sequestered glen.

- It's a quiet, peaceful place and yet somehow foreboding. For it abounds in haunted spots, twilight tales and local superstitions.

- The best-known story however concerns a certain itinerant schoolmaster who once frequented these parts.

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