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Rip Van Winkle

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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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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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Rip Van Winkle'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/rip-van-winkle.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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