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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

Macmillan and Company, limited, 1920 - 218 pages

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66	16

He was moreover a kind neighbour and an obedient	23

For he would sit on a wet rock with a rod as long	28

From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was	41

Panting and fatigued he threw himself late in	47

Rip complied with his usual alacrity and mutually	57

He looked round for his gun but in place of the clean	64

These mountain beds do not agree with me thought	67

His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room	118

He was the singingmaster of the neighbourhood	131

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst	138

Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving	145

At the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest	151

Brom Van Brunt دو	161

The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance	184

The head that should have rested on his shoulders	195

And preferred making friends among the rising genera	89

They never hear a thunder storm of a summer afternoon	95

Heading	106

The whole neighbourhood abounds with local taes	109

His terror rose to desperation he rained a shower	204

Tailpiece	215

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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Bibliographic information

Title	Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Little Blue Book Library. no. 80
Author	Washington Irving
Illustrated by	George Henry Boughton
Publisher	Macmillan and Company, limited, 1920
Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized	12 Jun 2017
Length	218 pages

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