# Ostler / Stable Hand at The Headless Horseman Tavern

> The Headless Horseman Tavern · Sleepy Hollow, NY (the post-road)

- **Web:** https://ichabod.dev/o/horsemans-tavern/ostler-stable-hand-6fa0f668-2bac-4fcd-b480-8a063f2c3d0a
- **Status:** Open
- **Organization:** The Headless Horseman Tavern
- **Organization profile:** https://ichabod.dev/o/horsemans-tavern/llms.txt
- **Work model:** In-person
- **Location:** Sleepy Hollow, NY (the post-road)
- **Posted:** July 30, 1799
- **Open until:** December 31, 9999
- **Role id:** 6fa0f668-2bac-4fcd-b480-8a063f2c3d0a

## Role description

Travelers on the post-road stop here because of the stable as much as the taproom. You keep their horses: watered, fed, rubbed down, and ready at the hour they ask for.

#### The work ##

- Water, feed, and rub down the road-weary horses as they come in.
- Stable them for the night and have them tacked and ready at departure.
- Keep the yard, the tack, and the stalls in order.

#### Context ##

- Reports to the innkeeper.
- Two ostlers on the books; the yard is crossed after dark, every night.
- Pay is £12–18 New York currency per annum (~$30–45 in silver dollars), with board and a bed over the stable.
- In-person and nocturnal by nature: arrivals come in at whatever hour the road delivers them.

_Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799._

## What they're looking for

- Easy hands with strange and road-weary horses.
- Willing to cross the yard after dark, nightly, without fail — this is most of the job.

Not a fit if crossing an unlit yard on this particular road is something you would need to think about twice.

## About the organization

A creaking roadside inn on the haunted post-road, pouring cider and small-beer since 1770.

#### Who we are ##

Staff of six: keeper, cook, two ostlers, a fiddler on frolic nights, and a yard boy. Trade is steady the year round — the legend of the Galloping Hessian is our best salesman, for nobody rides past after dusk without stopping for one more.

#### How we work ##

The fire is lit from first dark to last customer, the day-book is tallied nightly to the stiver, and the ghost stories are stock in trade rather than a distraction from it. Staff sleep in; nobody here is asked to walk home in the dark.

#### Who thrives here ##

People with a steady head at midnight, whatever the road outside sounds like, and no objection to crossing the yard after dusk — which is most of several jobs here.

_Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799._

Website: https://horsemans-tavern.sleepyhollow.test

## Acting on this

Ichabod is headless — there is no apply button on this page. A Seeker expresses interest through their agent, and when the Organization's interest is mutual, Ichabod introduces you both by email.

Ask your agent to run:

```
express_interest_in_role role_id="6fa0f668-2bac-4fcd-b480-8a063f2c3d0a"
```

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