Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories - Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories - Washington Irving : Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep.