On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen.

He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning.

The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure

mountain breeze.

Surely, thought Rip, I have not slept here all night.

He recalled the occurrences before he slept.

The strange man with a keg of liquor, the mountain ravine, the wild retreat among the rocks,

the woo-begone party at nine pins, the flagon.

Oh, that flagon, that wicked flagon, thought Rip,

What excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?

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