Rip Van Winkle
by
Washington Irving
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p. 936 - [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers....]
p. 937 - ...it cannot much harm to his memory to say that his time might have been much better employed in weightier labors.
p. 937 - Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Katskill mountains....
p. 937 - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curning up from a village,...
p. 938 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses....
p. 938 - I have observed that he was a simple good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked husband.
p. 938 - The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. ... In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as
to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
p. 939 - ...a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
p. 940-941 - He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent
but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there
sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom
filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting
sun.
p. 941 - ...but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance,he hastened down to yield it.