The New McGuffey Fifth Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Author:William Holmes McGuffey
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: American Book Co.
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle.

^ ^-^ '^^-' -1 T.~^ r Tiif i*-^i:z;^ iiin- For some time -^ ^ - *• ^ - ■'—* ^-^le : -f-'L.:!;? was gradually ad--i^ -^ : - r^ ::::«^':> j^-ru. v lir^w their long blue *-^' •^- -r ^.- -^r-r r it* ?iix iLu it would be dark _ ^ ^ ^ '. i.^ 7*^ a *-ie T-~.L^: md he heaved a i-' ~ *^. T^^-T ir- zi' r^^ X -tzi:■ Qzieimg the terrors

11- ir T'^ ^ .IT 1* Lt^-!t!if£ 2»t ir-AT^l a Yolce from a

^^-i^.-* 1-^ -'-ic - L^^ ^^ '^^sl^ : R:p Van Winkle!"

Lr 1- %.*t iT- -LHw ]»ir - *L'L ?«re X* cr ".^but a crow wing-

zzz I* '^-liu^^ £^j: *•*?«*? ziti 3i':cnuin- He thought

:_-. Zdi.-^ mi^ l-i"-^ tj—**i~-H£ '"''^ and turned again to

ur^-^n.u rzra itt itar-i ziit slzu* err ring through the

^-i:: *"^v-r xiT^ * i-:: '^^^ ^-V> ! Rip Van Winkle 1"

— IT ur* «*iiif :i:ii»t ^ c :rj>:Ieii :ip his back, and giving

1 J •» r-.^v^r^Li-i > i-i iLk?ccr"s side, looking fearfully

D FT :a:- nir r-^o^ 2-^ x» w fri: a vague apprehension

ic-'i^'r : r^ i_a: itt !:• itif 42j:-Misly in the same direc-

-ij »i^ kui :»rr:>-* t^: a jCtij-^ frire slowly toiling up the

-., j^ a^.f V~ : -^ zzirT :l>r weight of 8om6thing_he

,.j^^^ H - Tri> ^uTf^rised to see any humaji

tpriziy I ' - - > ^^^ tinfre, :f nted f Iiee, bnt ^upposmg

it uXt - : - J^- •/ tt^ !.->!i ti>rh«Md in need of hh assist-

ance, he 1. t-'-tj^I ^*»ti l*' ji^** it _ ^

On untrrf di^pn^ck be w*s j Hi/jgulsnt V r4' the simnger's app M(|uare-*nnlt old fellow, ^j'izzled IhmhL His fiu^hion — u <^loth jer 8(»verRl piuvs of breev] d<»ooratcd wftfi bunolifw mi Hn: k|

^

gist entirely

-loaf hat set

id beards, of

!!!i im nif

JJL..

ttiander* He eaten counte-and hanger, rs, and high-Jiole group re-ish painting, ^ village par.son, ' Holland at the

v^aa, that though iselves, yet they •ysterious silence, party of pleasure ipted the stillness , which, whenever ains like rumbling

'd them, they sud-

■i\ at him %vithsuch

ige, uncouth, lack-

ued within him, and

panion now emptied

onB, and made signs

He obeyed with fear

r in profound silence,

^iision subsided. He d upon him, to taste

keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with the load. Though rather shy and distrustful of this new acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual alacrity, and mutually relieving each other, they clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a mountain torrent. As they ascended. Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine or rather cleft between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted.

He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thundershowers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded. Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheater, surrounded by perpendicular

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