Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving's most popular story in "The Sketch-Book" is "Rip Van Winkle." A florid writer, dealing with the picturesque scenery of a village on the Hudson, or the solemn grandeur of the mountains, would have ornamented his story with extravagant word-painting, and such an elaboration would have destroyed its simplicity.

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