It is a short story by Washington Irving, first published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. Though set in the Dutch culture of pre-Revolutionary War New York state, the story of Rip Van Winkle is based on a German folktale. Rip Van Winkle is an amiable farmer who wanders into the Catskill Mountains, where he comes upon a group of dwarfs playing ninepins. Rip accepts their offer of a drink of liquor and promptly falls asleep. When he awakens, 20 years later, he is an old man with a long white beard; the dwarfs are nowhere in sight. When Rip returns to town, he finds that everything is changed: his wife is dead, his children are grown, and George Washington’s portrait hangs in place of King George III’s. The old man entertains the townspeople with tales of the old days and his encounter with the little men in the mountains.
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2. = This story is about Rip Van Winkle, a good natured but lazy man who goes away into the hills and falls asleep. When he awakens twenty years later, Rip finds that quite a few things have
3. = Value of time = Discouraging laziness = Encouraging hard work = Social behaviour. = To develop imagination and creativity = To increase vocabulary = To develop the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening,
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6. RIP VAN IN HIS VILLAGE
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7. = He played with the children. He taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles and told them long stories.
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12. = At night, on his way back to his village he heard a voice calling him “Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle”. He Saw a short oldman walking towards him with the barrel. fen eee ee AML
13. yb ah = The stranger took Rip to a place where some more odd looking men were playing ninepins...
14. = All the odd /ooking men were playing the game seriously. The old man emptied the contents of the barrel into glasses and made Rip drink it. The sooner Rip drank the content, he fell into a deep sleep.
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