I had never realized how totally useless as a husband Rip Van Winkle was, and how extremely shrewish his wife was. He's also a layabout who likes hunting and hanging out at the tavern with friends, but not so much working on his farm. Rip van Winkle is a villager living in New York state, just before the American Revolution in the 1770s.
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It took a little digging to find the full original version of this old story online it turns out that it's included in a collection of stories by Washington Irving called The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., available for free at Gutenberg here. **Warning: if you're one of those vanishingly rare people who's not familiar with this story, there are major spoilers after the next picture below.** Almost everyone knows the basic story, but I'd guess not all that many people have actually read Washington Irving's original story. "Rip Van Winkle" is considered by some critics to be one of the finest early American short stories. **Warning: if you're one of those vanishingly rare people who's not familiar with this story, there are major spoilers after the next picture below.** It took a little digging to find the full original version of this old story online it turns out that it's includ
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