Two stories from the Catskill Mountains. One features a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world. The other is about a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.