Rip van Winkle and other stories [antikvár]

Rip Van Winkleposthumous writing of diedrich knickerbockerBy Woden, God of Saxons,From whence comes Wensday, that isWodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre -Cartwright[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