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The long, sluggish canal, running like a sleeping serpent round the village, seemed to have more of life than it had. "What a dull place!" said Kate. "Has everybody gone to sleep? Is it always like this?" "Mostly," said Eeny. "You should hear Rose abuse it. It is only fit for a lot of Rip Van Winkles, or the Seven Sleepers, she says.
A garden lad standing on the top of the kitchen steps clipping Doctor Winkles' hedge saw him in this unfrequented corner, and found him and his occupation sufficiently inexplicable and interesting to watch him pretty closely. He saw Mr.
Once in a while lately Josephine and I have taken it into our heads to put in an appearance at the Assemblies, where, though we had been respectfully and cordially received, it has been evident to us that we were regarded as social Rip Van Winkles, and that at least half the company were inquiring who in thunder we were, and the remainder, who did know us, were wondering why in time we came.
The story of Rip Van Winkle, told by Irving, dramatized by Boucicault, acted by Jefferson, pictured by Darley, set to music by Bristow, is the best known of American legends. Rip was a real personage, and the Van Winkles are a considerable family at this day. An idle, good-natured, happy-go-lucky fellow, he lived, presumably, in the village of Catskill, and began his long sleep in 1769.
Only slowly did he win a way towards a central position in affairs." There was no change in the essential order of things," that eminent leader of modern thought, Doctor Winkles, was very clear upon this, and the exponents of what was called in those days Progressive Liberalism grew quite sentimental upon the essential insincerity of their progress.
The irony of Providence sent him by a cook's shop, where the mingled steam of meats and puddings rushed out upon the wayfarer like ambushed bandits, and seized him and dragged him in, or sent him qualmish and humbled on his way. Two little boys had flattened their noses to the whiteness of winkles against the jealously misty windows.
"Redwood," said Bensington; "it's a curious thing to say, I know, but do you think Winkles understands?" "What?" "Just what it is we have made. "Does he really understand," said Bensington, dropping his voice and keeping his eye doorward, "that in the Family the Family of his new patient " "Go on," said Redwood. "Who have always been if anything a little under under " "The Average?" "Yes.
It's winkles we'll 'ave for supper, and a blessing it's there's one thing cheap and with some taste to it. A penny-'orth even, goes quite a way, but a penny-'orth ain't much when there's a child to each winkle an' may be two." "The churchyard's been a better friend to me than to you," said a thin and haggard-looking woman, who had come across the street for a look at Orlando.
You know bread meant fish with Dagger Bill and cake meant things like winkles and frogs, and watermice, and Water Babies, of course! "Well, you know, it was no joke hunting the Water Babies, for the old muskrats could fight, and would, and did! And after Dagger Bill and his family had breakfasted on two or three Water Babies, there was great excitement in all the muskrat homes.
And the National Temperance Association, by-the-bye, has founded a branch for Temperance in Growth." "Mm," said Bensington and stroked his nose. "After all that has happened there's bound to be this uproar. On the face of it the thing's startling." Winkles walked about the room for a time, hesitated, and departed.
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