RIP VAN WINKLE (WASHINTON IRVING) and THE AMERICAN BOY (THEODORE ROOSEVELT)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagadorn. We have two |
| 0:35.8 | stories for you today. The first, a retelling of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. The second, a very short story called The American Boy, by Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 0:49.0 | At the foot of the Catskill Mountains lies a little village of great antiquity, having been found it long ago by the Dutch. |
| 0:55.0 | And in one of these houses there lived many years since while the country was yet a |
| 0:59.9 | province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow by the name of Rip Van Winkle. |
| 1:06.2 | Now the great error in Rip's composition was an aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. |
| 1:12.0 | It could not be from want of perseverance, for he would sit on a wet rock with a rod as long and |
| 1:17.2 | heavy as a tartar's lance and fish all day without a murmur, even though he would not be encouraged |
| 1:22.4 | by a single nibble. |
| 1:24.1 | He would carry a fouling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and |
| 1:28.3 | swamps and uphill and down to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. |
| 1:33.0 | Or he would assist the children in the village in their sports, |
| 1:36.0 | make their playthings, fly their kites, |
| 1:38.0 | and shoot their marbles, |
| 1:40.0 | and tell them long stories of ghosts and witches. Whenever he went dodging about the village he was surrounded by a troop of them hanging on to his pants and clambering up his back. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, such as husking Indian corn or building stone fences. |
| 1:58.0 | The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging |
| 2:04.6 | husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's |
| 2:09.3 | business but his own. As to doing family duty and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. |
| 2:16.7 | In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm. |
| 2:20.3 | It was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. Everything about it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. |
| 2:24.0 | Everything about it went wrong and would go wrong in spite of him. |
| 2:28.8 | His fences were continually falling to pieces. |
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