very stranger t arrived at Mr.

    Doolittles el.  ?rst, to vary on some points every time old it, o ly a at last settled doo tale I ed, and not a man,  by . Some alended to doubt ty of it, and insisted t Rip  of  t on cants,  universally gave it full credit. Even to torm of a summer afternoon about tskill, but t t is a common  ing draug of Rip Van inkles ?agon.

    NOtE.

    tale, one , ed to Mr.

    Knickerbocker by a little German superstition about t and tain; te, o tale, s it is an absolute fact, narrated y.

    quot;tory of Rip Van inkle may seem incredible to many, but nevert my full belief, for I knoy of our old Dutctlements to  to marvellous events and appearances. Indeed, I ranger stories too icated to admit of a doubt. I alked  I saional and consistent on every ot, t I tious person could refuse to take to ti?cate on t taken before a country justice, and signed ices oory, ty of doubt.

    quot;D. K.quot;

    <span style="color:grey">travelling notes from a memorandum-book of Mr.Knickerbocker:

    <span style="color:grey">tsberg or Catskill mountains s, , said to be t on t peak of tskills, and  to open and s t t up to stars. In times of drougiated, s summer clouds out of cob of tain, ?ake after ?ake, like ?akes of carded cotton, to ?oat in til, dissolved by t of tle so spring, ts to ripen, and to groing in t of ttle-bellied spider in t of its he valleys!

    <span style="color:grey">In old tim