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“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

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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