Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from
home with his gun, and never has been heard of since,—
“Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, in The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., No. 1 (C. S. Van Winkle, June
1819).