In that same village, and in one of the very hous （which, to tell the preci truth, was sadly time-worn aher-beaten）, there lived many years since, while the try was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a desdant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and apanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He ied, however, but little of the martial character of his aors. I have obrved that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient, henpecked husband. Io the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him suiversal popularity; for tho men are most apt to be obquious and ciliating abroad who are uhe discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtaiure is worth all the rmons in the world for teag the virtues of patiend long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be sidered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blesd.
In that same village, and in one of the very hous （which, to tell the preci truth, was sadly time-worn aher-beaten）, there lived many years since, while the try was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a desdant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and apanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He ied, however, but little of the martial character of his aors. I have obrved that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient, henpecked husband. Io the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him suiversal popularity; for tho men are most apt to be obquious and ciliating abroad who are uhe discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtaiure is worth all the rmons in the world for teag the virtues of patiend long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be sidered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blesd.