Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle, is the hero of the short story of the same name by Washington Irving considered to be one of the first American short stories along with his another story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Rip Van Winkle in the story was a Dutch colonist of New York who, driven from home by a termagant wife strolls into a ravine of the Katskill Mountains, falls in with a strange man whom he assists in carrying a keg, and comes upon a company of odd-looking creatures playing at ninepins, but never uttering a word, when, seizing an opportunity that offered, he took up one of the kegs he had carried, fell into a stupor, and slept 20 years, to find his beard and all the world about him quite changed.

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