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THE famous story of Rip Van Winkle first appeared in 1818, and was republished in London the following year as one of a series of papers which had the collective title of The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent"., this being a pseudonym which Washington Irving attached to several of his works. The author, born in New York in 1783, of a Scotch father and an English mother, was residing in England when the Sketch-book appeared. He had already become known to the reading world of Britain by his humorous and fictitious History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker. It is to the same mythical American Dutchman that he ascribes the admirable tale here presented, as the reader will learn from the statement prefixed to it, professedly pro

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