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| “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages, which held its sessions before a small inn” | Frontispiece |
| “Certain biscuit-bakers have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on their New-Year Cakes” | x |
| “These mountains are regarded by all good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers” | x |
| “Some of the houses of the original settlers” | 2 |
| “A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering” | 2 |
| “Taught them to fly kites” | 2 |
| “His cow would go astray or get among the cabbages” | 4 |
| “His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody” | 4 |
| “Equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had as much ado to hold up as a fine lady does her train in bad weather” | 4 |
| “So that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to the outside of the house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.” | 6 |
| “A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins” | 10 |
| “They maintained the gravest faces” | 12 |
| “They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, that his heart turned within him and his knees smote together” | 12 |
| “He even ventured to taste the beverage, which he found had much of the flavour of excellent Hollands” | 12 |
| “Surely,” thought he, “I have not slept here all night.... Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon! what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?” | 12 |
| “They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise and invariably stroked their chins” | 14 |
| “A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him and pointing at his grey beard” | 14 |
| “The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed” | 14 |
| “He found the house gone to decay.... ‘My very dog,’ sighed poor Rip, ‘has forgotten me’” | 16 |
| “They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity” | 16 |
| Rip’s daughter and grandchild | 20 |
| “He preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favour” | 24 |
| “The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a region full of fable” | 26 |
| They were ruled by an old squaw spirit | 28 |
| IN TEXT |
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| These fairy mountains | 2 |
| Long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians | 5 |
| Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village | 21 |
| The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings | 25 |
| Very subject to marvellous events and appearances | 30 |
| When these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys | 33 |
| With a loud ho! ho! | 35 |
