¹³ This passage rounds out our picture of the possessions, erudition and accomplishments of the schoolmaster. His povery was demonstrated by how little he owned. His literary tastes were simple and mainly superstitious. And he was so unpracticed at writing that his attempt to copy a few poems was a disaster. The educational legacy he left in Sleepy Hollow is summed up by Hans Van Ripper, who "determined to send his children no more to school; observing that he never knew any good come of this same reading and writing."