rip van winkle is a good guy married to a termagant wife in a dutch village in new york before the revolutionary war
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rvw is quick to help any neighbor but avoids work at home
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he tries to escape his angry wife
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Rvw often goes to the town inn to hang out with his friends to avoid his wife
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Dvw eventually shows up screams at everyone and drage rvw home
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Rvw goes into the woods to hunt dvw and loses track of time
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On his way home rvw meets a strange little man and helps him carry a keg of liquor up the mountain
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at the top of the mountain Rvw meets more strange little men who are bowling with sad faces
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Rvw serves the strange men the liquor in the keg
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Rvw drinks the liquor and passes out on the mountain top.
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He wakes up and his dog is missing and his gun has been replaced
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He heads back to the village recognizes no one and sees his beard is a foot long
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He returned home and found no body was there and the house was falling apart
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Rvw has slept through the revolutionary war. All of his friends are dead or gone. He finds out that his wife is dead. The men who were bowling were the ghosts or the original Dutch settlers who return every 20 years.
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Rvw wants to get away from his nagging wife. The colonies wanted to get away from the king.