Ichabod Crane

a Yankee schoolmaster in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Irving's Sketch Book. Ichabod is a suitor for the hand and inheritance of Miss Katrina Van Tassel. He has a startling adventure with the Headless Horseman and disappears forever from the neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow. See Irving

The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.--Washington Irving, The Sketch-Book.