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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Rip Van Winkle - -Author: Washington Irving - -Illustrator: Arthur Rackham - -Release Date: December 20, 2019 [EBook #60976] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RIP VAN WINKLE *** - - - - -Produced by Sue Clark and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - -RIP VAN WINKLE - - - - -ARTHUR RACKHAM’S ILLUSTRATIONS - - - THE ALLIES’ FAIRY BOOK 6s. net - - A CHRISTMAS CAROL By CHARLES DICKENS 6s. net - - MOTHER GOOSE, THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES 6s. net - - ARTHUR RACKHAM’S BOOK OF PICTURES 21s. net - - AESOP’S FABLES - A New Translation by V. S. VERNON JONES, with an - Introduction by G. K. 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By WASHINGTON IRVING. 21s. net - - THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OF MIRTH AND MARVEL - By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. 21s. net - -LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of -perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages, -which held its sessions before a small inn.”] - - - - -RIP VAN WINKLE - - [Illustration] - - BY · WASHINGTON - IRVING - ILLUSTRATED · BY - ARTHUR · RACKHAM - - [Illustration] - - LONDON: WILLIAM · HEINEMANN - NEW · YORK: DOUBLEDAY · PAGE · & Co. - - - - - _Complete Edition, with 51 Illustrations in Colour. First - published (15s. net) September 1905._ - - _New Impressions January 1907; August 1908; May 1909; November - 1910._ - - _Cheaper Issue, with 24 Illustrations in Colour and many new - Illustrations in the Text October 1916. New Impression 1917, - 1919._ - - - - -ILLUSTRATIONS - - -IN COLOUR - - To face page - - “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of - perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle - personages, which held its sessions before a small inn” - _Frontispiece_ - - “Certain biscuit-bakers have gone so far as to imprint his - likeness on their New-Year Cakes” x - - “These mountains are regarded by all good wives, far and - near, as perfect barometers” x - - “Some of the houses of the original settlers” 2 - - “A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world - for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering” 2 - - “Taught them to fly kites” 2 - - “His cow would go astray or get among the cabbages” 4 - - “His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged - to nobody” 4 - - “Equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, - which he had as much ado to hold up as a fine lady does her - train in bad weather” 4 - - “So that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to - the outside of the house--the only side which, in truth, - belongs to a henpecked husband.” 6 - - “A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins” 10 - - “They maintained the gravest faces” 12 - - “They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, that - his heart turned within him and his knees smote together” 12 - - “He even ventured to taste the beverage, which he found had - much of the flavour of excellent Hollands” 12 - - “Surely,” thought he, “I have not slept here all night.... - Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon! what excuse shall I - make to Dame Van Winkle?” 12 - - “They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise and - invariably stroked their chins” 14 - - “A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting - after him and pointing at his grey beard” 14 - - “The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an old - acquaintance, barked at him as he passed” 14 - - “He found the house gone to decay.... ‘My very dog,’ sighed - poor Rip, ‘has forgotten me’” 16 - - “They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with - great curiosity” 16 - - Rip’s daughter and grandchild 20 - - “He preferred making friends among the rising generation, - with whom he soon grew into great favour” 24 - - “The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a - region full of fable” 26 - - They were ruled by an old squaw spirit 28 - - -IN TEXT - - Page - - These fairy mountains 2 - - Long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians 5 - - Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village 21 - - The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by - strange beings 25 - - Very subject to marvellous events and appearances 30 - - When these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys 33 - - With a loud ho! ho! 35 - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - - By Woden, God of Saxons, - From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. - Truth is a thing that ever I will keep - Unto thylke day in which I creep into - My sepulchre---- - CARTWRIGHT. - - - - -[Illustration] - -INTRODUCTION - - -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. His historical researches, however, did -not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably -scanty on his favourite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and -still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore so invaluable to -true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch -family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading -sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter, -and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm. - -The result of all these researches was a history of the province -during the reign of the Dutch governors, which he published some years -since. There have been various opinions as to the literary character -of his work, and, to tell the truth, it is not a whit better than it -should be. Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed -was a little questioned on its first appearance, but has since been -completely established; and it is now admitted into all historical -collections as a book of unquestionable authority. - -The old gentleman died shortly after the publication of his work; and -now that he is dead and gone, it cannot do much harm to his memory to -say that his time might have been much better employed in weightier -labours. He, however, was apt to ride his hobby in his own way; and -though it did now and then kick up the dust a little in the eyes of -his neighbours, and grieve the spirit of some friends, for whom he -felt the truest deference and affection, yet his errors and follies -are remembered “more in sorrow than anger,” and it begins to be -suspected that he never intended to injure or offend. But however his -memory may be appreciated by critics, it is still held dear by many -folks whose good opinion is well worth having; particularly by certain -biscuit-bakers, who have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on -their new-year cakes; and have thus given him a chance for immortality, -almost equal to the being stamped on a Waterloo medal, or a Queen -Anne’s farthing. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: “Certain biscuit-bakers have gone so far as to imprint -his likeness on their New-Year Cakes.”] - -[Illustration: “These mountains are regarded by all good wives, far and -near, as perfect barometers.”] - -[Illustration: _These fairy mountains._] - -[Illustration: “Some of the houses of the original settlers.”] - -[Illustration: “A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world -for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.”] - -[Illustration: “Taught them to fly kites.”] - - - - -RIP VAN WINKLE - - -Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill -mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian -family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a -noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change -of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, -produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, -and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect -barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in -blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening -sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they -will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the -last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of -glory. - -At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried -the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam -among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away -into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little village, -of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists -in the early times of the province, just about the beginning of the -government of the good Peter Stuyvesant (may he rest in peace!), and -there were some of the houses of the original settlers standing within -a few years, built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, having -latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. - -In that same village and in one of these very houses (which, to tell -the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there -lived, many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great -Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. -He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in -the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the -siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the -martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that he was a -simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbour, and -an obedient, hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance -might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal -popularity; for those men are apt to be obsequious and conciliating -abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, -doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of -domestic tribulation; and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons -in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. -A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a -tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed. - -Certain it is that he was a great favourite among all the good wives of -the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all -family squabbles; and never failed, whenever they talked those matters -over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van -Winkle. The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever -he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, -taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories -of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the -village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, -clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with -impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. - -[Illustration: “His cow would go astray or get among the cabbages.”] - -[Illustration: “His children were as ragged and wild as if they -belonged to nobody.”] - -[Illustration: “Equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off -galligaskins, which he had as much ado to hold up as a fine lady does -her train in bad weather.”] - -[Illustration: _Long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians._] - -The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to -all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for want of assiduity -or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long -and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even -though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry -a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through -woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels -or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour even -in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man in all country frolics -for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences; the women of the -village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such -little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. -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. - -In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm; it was the -most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything -about it went wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually -falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among the -cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere -else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some -outdoor work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled -away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more -left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the -worst-conditioned farm in the neighbourhood. - -His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to -nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised -to inherit the habits, with the old clothes, of his father. He was -generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in -a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to -hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. - -Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, -well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or -brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would -rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he -would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept -continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, -and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, -her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was -sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way -of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, -had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, -cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a -fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, -and take to the outside of the house--the only side which, in truth, -belongs to a hen-pecked husband. - -[Illustration: “So that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to -the outside of the house--the only side which, in truth, belongs to a -henpecked husband.”] - -Rip’s sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much -hen-pecked as his master; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as -companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as -the cause of his master’s going so often astray. True it is, in all -points of spirit befitting an honourable dog, he was as courageous an -animal as ever scoured the woods--but what courage can withstand the -evil-doing and all-besetting terrors of a woman’s tongue? The moment -Wolf entered the house his chest fell, his tail drooped to the ground -or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, -casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least -flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping -precipitation. - -Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony -rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is -the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long -while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting -a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle -personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a -small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the -Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long, lazy summer’s -day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless, sleepy -stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any statesman’s -money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took -place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some -passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as -drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper, learned -little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the -dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events -some months after they had taken place. - -[Illustration] - -The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas -Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the -door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving -sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so -that the neighbours could tell the hour by his movements as accurately -as by a sun-dial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked -his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has -his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his -opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he -was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, -frequent, and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke -slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and -sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant -vapour curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of -perfect approbation. - -From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his -termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of -the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august -personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of -this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her -husband in habits of idleness. - -Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only -alternative, to escape from the labour of the farm and clamour of -his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. -Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share -the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathised as -a fellow-sufferer in persecution. “Poor Wolf,” he would say, “thy -mistress leads thee a dog’s life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst -I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!” Wolf would wag -his tail, look wistfully in his master’s face; and, if dogs can feel -pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart. - -In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had -unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill -Mountains. He was after his favourite sport of squirrel shooting, and -the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his -gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on -a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow -of a precipice. From an opening between the trees he could overlook -all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. 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. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene; evening was -gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue -shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he -could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of -encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. - -As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, -hallooing: “Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!” He looked round, but -could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the -mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again -to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening -air: “Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!” At the same time Wolf bristled -up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master’s side, -looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension -stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and -perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending -under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised -to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place; but -supposing it to be some one of the neighbourhood in need of his -assistance, he hastened down to yield it. - -[Illustration: “A company of odd-looking persons playing at -ninepins.”] - -[Illustration] - -On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of -the stranger’s appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, -with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the -antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist--several -pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows -of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his -shoulder a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for -Rip to approach and assist him with the load. Though rather shy and -distrustful of his new acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual -alacrity; and mutually relieving one another, they clambered up a -narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a mountain torrent. As they -ascended, Rip every now and then heard long, rolling peals, like -distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather -cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their ragged path conducted. -He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of -one of those transient thunder-showers which often take place in -mountain heights, he proceeded. Passing through the ravine, they came -to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular -precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their -branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the -bright evening cloud. During the whole time Rip and his companion had -laboured on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what -could be the object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain, -yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, -that inspired awe and checked familiarity. - -[Illustration] - -On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented -themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking -personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint, -outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with -long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, -of similar style with that of the guide’s. Their visages, too, were -peculiar; one had a large beard, broad face, and small piggish eyes; -the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was -surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock’s -tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was -one who seemed to be the commander. He was a stout old gentleman, with -a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and -hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled -shoes, with roses in them. The whole group reminded Rip of the figures -in an old Flemish painting, in the parlour of Dominie Van Shaick, the -village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the -time of the settlement. - -What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that these folks were -evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, -the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy -party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the -stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they -were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. - -[Illustration: “They maintained the gravest faces.”] - -[Illustration: “They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, -that his heart turned within him and his knees smote together.”] - -[Illustration: “He even ventured to taste the beverage, which he found -had much of the flavour of excellent Hollands.”] - -[Illustration: “Surely,” thought he, “I have not slept here all -night.... Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon! what excuse shall I make -to Dame Van Winkle?”] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from -their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and -such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned -within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the -contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait -upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the -liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game. - -By degrees Rip’s awe and apprehension subsided. He even ventured, when -no eye was fixed upon him, to taste the beverage, which he found had -much of the flavour of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty -soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked -another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at -length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head -gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. - -On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen -the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes--it was a bright sunny -morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and -the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. -“Surely,” thought Rip, “I have not slept here all night.” He recalled -the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of -liquor--the mountain ravine--the wild retreat among the rocks--the -woebegone party at ninepins--the flagon--“Oh! that flagon! that wicked -flagon!” thought Rip,--“what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?” - -He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, well-oiled -fowling-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel -incrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm-eaten. -He now suspected that the grave roysterers of the mountains had put a -trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of -his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away -after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him, and shouted his -name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but -no dog was to be seen. - -[Illustration: “They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise and -invariably stroked their chins.”] - -[Illustration: “A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting -after him and pointing at his grey beard.”] - -[Illustration: “The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an -old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed.”] - -He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening’s gambol, and if -he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to -walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual -activity. “These mountain beds do not agree with me,” thought Rip, “and -if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall -have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle.” With some difficulty he got -down into the glen: he found the gully up which he and his companion -had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain -stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling -the glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made shift to scramble -up its sides, working his toilsome way through thickets of birch, -sassafras, and witch-hazel, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by -the wild grape-vines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to -tree, and spread a kind of network in his path. - -At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs -to the amphitheatre; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks -presented a high, impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came -tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, -black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip -was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he -was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows, sporting high -in the air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, -secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor -man’s perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, -and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up -his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to -starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty -firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his -steps homeward. - -As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom -he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself -acquainted with every one in the country round. Their dress, too, was -of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all -stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast -their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant -recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, -when, to his astonishment, he found his beard had grown a foot long! - -He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strange -children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his -grey beard. The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an old -acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; -it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had -never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had -disappeared. Strange names were over the doors--strange faces at the -windows--everything was strange. His mind now misgave him; he began -to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched. -Surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day -before. There stood the Kaatskill Mountains--there ran the silver -Hudson at a distance--there was every hill and dale precisely as it -had always been. Rip was sorely perplexed. “That flagon last night,” -thought he, “has addled my poor head sadly!” - -[Illustration: “He found the house gone to decay.... ‘My very dog,’ -sighed poor Rip, ‘has forgotten me.’”] - -[Illustration: “They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot -with great curiosity.”] - -It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, -which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the -shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay--the -roof had fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the -hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about -it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and -passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. “My very dog,” sighed poor -Rip, “has forgotten me!” - -He entered the house, which, to tell the truth, Dame Van Winkle had -always kept in neat order. It was empty, forlorn, and apparently -abandoned. This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears--he -called loudly for his wife and children--the lonely chambers rang for a -moment with his voice, and then all again was silence. - -He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village -inn--but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in -its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended -with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, “The -Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.” Instead of the great tree that -used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was -reared a tall, naked pole, with something on the top that looked like -a red nightcap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a -singular assemblage of stars and stripes;--all this was strange and -incomprehensible. He recognised on the sign, however, the ruby face -of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; -but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed -for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a -sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was -painted in large characters, “GENERAL WASHINGTON.” - -There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that -Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. -There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of -the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for -the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair -long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches; -or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an -ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, -with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about -rights of citizens--elections--members of congress--liberty--Bunker’s -Hill--heroes of seventy-six--and other words, which were a perfect -Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle. - -The appearance of Rip, with his long, grizzled beard, his rusty -fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and an army of women and children at -his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians. They -crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. -The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired -“On which side he voted?” Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another -short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on -tiptoe, inquired in his ear, “Whether he was Federal or Democrat?” -Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a knowing, -self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way -through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows -as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm -akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat -penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere -tone, “What brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, -and a mob at his heels; and whether he meant to breed a riot in the -village?” “Alas! gentlemen,” cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, “I am a poor -quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God -bless him!” - -[Illustration: Rip’s daughter and grandchild.] - -Here a general shout burst from the bystanders--“A tory! a tory! a spy! -a refugee! hustle him! away with him!” It was with great difficulty -that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, -having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the -unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking? The -poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came -there in search of some of his neighbours, who used to keep about the -tavern. - -“Well--who are they?--name them.” - -Rip bethought himself a moment, and inquired: “Where’s Nicholas Vedder?” - -There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a -thin, piping voice, “Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these -eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that -used to tell all about him, but that’s rotten and gone too.” - -“Where’s Brom Dutcher?” - -“Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he -was killed at the storming of Stony Point--others say he was drowned in -a squall at the foot of Antony’s Nose. I don’t know--he never came back -again.” - -“Where’s Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?” - -“He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general, and is now -in congress.” - -Rip’s heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and -friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer -puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of -matters which he could not understand: war--congress--Stony Point;--he -had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair: -“Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?” - -“Oh, Rip Van Winkle!” exclaimed two or three, “oh, to be sure! that’s -Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree.” - -Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up -the mountain; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor -fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, -and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his -bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what -was his name. - -“God knows!” exclaimed he, at his wit’s end; “I’m not myself--I’m -somebody else--that’s me yonder--no--that’s somebody else got into my -shoes--I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and -they’ve changed my gun, and everything’s changed, and I can’t tell -what’s my name, or who I am!” - -The bystanders began now to look at each other, nod, wink -significantly, and tap their fingers against their foreheads. There was -a whisper, also, about securing the gun, and keeping the old fellow -from doing mischief, at the very suggestion of which the self-important -man in the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical -moment a fresh, comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep -at the grey-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, -frightened at his looks, began to cry. “Hush, Rip,” cried she, “hush, -you little fool; the old man won’t hurt you.” The name of the child, -the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of -recollections in his mind. “What is your name, my good woman?” asked -he. - -[Illustration: _Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village -(p. 24)._] - -“Judith Gardenier.” - -“And your father’s name?” - -“Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it’s twenty years -since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of -since,--his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, -or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a -little girl.” - -Rip had but one question more to ask; but he put it with a faltering -voice: - -“Where’s your mother?” - -“Oh, she too had died but a short time since; she broke a blood vessel -in a fit of passion at a New-England pedler.” - -There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest -man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her -child in his arms. “I am your father!” cried he--“Young Rip Van Winkle -once--old Rip Van Winkle now!--Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?” - -All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the -crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a -moment, exclaimed: “Sure enough! it is Rip Van Winkle--it is himself! -Welcome home again, old neighbour. Why, where have you been these -twenty long years?” - -Rip’s story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had seemed to -him as but one night. The neighbours stared when they heard it; some -were seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues in their cheeks; -and the self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was -over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth, -and shook his head--upon which there was a general shaking of the head -throughout the assemblage. - -It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old Peter -Vanderdonk, who was seen slowly advancing up the road. He was a -descendant of the historian of that name, who wrote one of the earliest -accounts of the province. Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the -village, and well versed in all the wonderful events and traditions of -the neighbourhood. He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his -story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that -it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the -Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it -was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of -the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, -with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit -the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river -and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen -them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the -mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the -sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder. - -To make a long story short, the company broke up and returned to the -more important concerns of the election. Rip’s daughter took him home -to live with her; she had a snug, well-furnished house, and a stout, -cheery farmer for a husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the -urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip’s son and heir, -who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was -employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to -attend to anything else but his business. - -Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his -former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of -time; and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with -whom he soon grew into great favour. - -[Illustration: “He preferred making friends among the rising -generation, with whom he soon grew into great favour.”] - -[Illustration: _The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by -strange beings._] - -[Illustration: “The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a -region full of fable.”] - -Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at that happy age when -a man can be idle with impunity, he took his place once more on the -bench at the inn-door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of -the village, and a chronicle of the old times “before the war.” It was -some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or -could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place -during his torpor. How that there had been a revolutionary war,--that -the country had thrown off the yoke of old England,--and that, instead -of being a subject of his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free -citizen of the United States. Rip, in fact, was no politician; the -changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but -there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, -and that was--petticoat government. Happily that was at an end; he had -got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony, and could go in and out -whenever he pleased, without dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. -Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged -his shoulders, and cast up his eyes; which might pass either for an -expression of resignation to his fate, or joy at his deliverance. - -He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. -Doolittle’s hotel. He was observed, at first, to vary on some points -every time he told it, which was, doubtless, owing to his having so -recently awaked. It at last settled down precisely to the tale I have -related, and not a man, woman, or child in the neighbourhood but knew -it by heart. Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and -insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one -point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, -however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they -never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, -but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of -ninepins; and it is a common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the -neighbourhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might -have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle’s flagon. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: They were ruled by an old squaw spirit.] - -[Illustration: _Very subject to marvellous events and appearances._] - - - - -NOTE - - -The foregoing tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. -Knickerbocker by a little German superstition about the Emperor -Frederick _der Rothbart_, and the Kypphäuser mountain; the subjoined -note, however, which he had appended to the tale, shows that it is an -absolute fact, narrated with his usual fidelity. - -“The story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredible to many, but -nevertheless I give it my full belief, for I know the vicinity of -our old Dutch settlements to have been very subject to marvellous -events and appearances. Indeed, I have heard many stranger stories -than this, in the villages along the Hudson, all of which were too -well authenticated to admit of a doubt. I have even talked with Rip -Van Winkle myself, who, when last I saw him, was a very venerable old -man, and so perfectly rational and consistent on every other point, -that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into -the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken -before a country justice and signed with a cross, in the justice’s own -handwriting. The story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of doubt. - - “D. K.” - - - - -POSTSCRIPT - - -The following are travelling notes from a memorandum-book of Mr. -Knickerbocker. - -The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a region full of -fable. The Indians considered them the abode of spirits, who influenced -the weather, spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape, and -sending good or bad hunting seasons. They were ruled by an old squaw -spirit, said to be their mother. She dwelt on the highest peak of the -Catskills, and had charge of the doors of day and night to open and -shut them at the proper hour. She hung up the new moons in the skies, -and cut up the old ones into stars. In times of drought, if properly -propitiated, she would spin light summer clouds out of cobwebs and -morning dew, and send them off from the crest of the mountain, flake -after flake, like flakes of carded cotton, to float in the air, until, -dissolved by the heat of the sun, they would fall in gentle showers, -causing the grass to spring, the fruits to ripen, and the corn to grow -an inch an hour. If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black -as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in -the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the -valleys! - -[Illustration: _When these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!_] - -In old times, say the Indian traditions, there was a kind of Manitou or -Spirit, who kept about the wildest recesses of the Catskill mountains, -and took a mischievous pleasure in wreaking all kinds of evils and -vexations upon the red men. Sometimes he would assume the form of a -bear, a panther, or a deer, lead the bewildered hunter a weary chase -through tangled forests and among ragged rocks, and then spring off -with a loud ho! ho! leaving him aghast on the brink of a beetling -precipice or raging torrent. - -[Illustration] - -The favourite abode of this Manitou is still shown. It is a great -rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, from the -flowering vines which clamber about it, and the wild flowers which -abound in its neighbourhood, is known by the name of the Garden Rock. -Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, -with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies -which lie on the surface. This place was held in great awe by the -Indians, insomuch that the boldest hunter would not pursue his game -within its precincts. Once upon a time, however, a hunter who had -lost his way penetrated to the Garden Rock, where he beheld a number -of gourds placed in the crotches of trees. One of these he seized and -made off with it, but in the hurry of his retreat he let it fall among -the rocks, when a great stream gushed forth, which washed him away -and swept him down precipices, where he was dashed to pieces, and the -stream made its way to the Hudson, and continues to flow to the present -day, being the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kill. - -[Illustration] - - - - - PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY - RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, - BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. 1, - AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. - - - - -Transcriber’s Note: - -Attempts have been made to retain hyphenation, punctuation and spelling -as published in the original publication. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RIP VAN WINKLE *** - -***** This file should be named 60976-0.txt or 60976-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/9/7/60976/ - -Produced by Sue Clark and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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