Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 54

~ - 8 CLARIFIED CLASSICS 1 RIP YAN WINKLE. / (Washington Irving.) N a sleepy one-horse village, flung hassock-like at the foot af the Kaatskill mountains, lived a pa- tient straw chewer named Rip Van Winkle. Rip was master of & shrewish wife, several underclad ur- chins, an everfailing farm, a dog. “Wolf." and the art of dodging work. One day (perhaps about the year 1756) Mrs. Van Winkle finished tidy- 1fg the heuse extra early and. feeling full of pep, bore forth in search of her connubial opponent to vent her spleen upon. At the Inn of Nicholas Yedder, tilted back under a portrait of H. R. M. George the Thrice, sat Rip, in a speed demon whittiing contest with the schoolmaster. “Wolt," sprawled beside his master, spotted the Dame first. He let out a yelp. drew his tail under him like a enail does its horns, and stood at shivering attention while she drew- nearer. “I'l bet my frau's in' the offing.” whispered Rip. *“That dog o' mine's a regular barometer when it comes to foretelling a storm. My wife in ac- tion makes a steam calliope sound like a'new baby cooing. She's tongue- tled—tongue's tied in'the middle, and flaps at each end.” Suddenly he felt an ungentle tug at his ear\ “Howdy do, please mam; Mrs. Van Winkle. was youw haying me paged? 1 was just allowing that I'd run home and plant out that corn—Y¥ and Rip was lilted home by loogely jointed ear. ERE = As he passed through the house on the way to the fleld, Rip's hand instinctively latched on to his mus- ket. Wolf was waiting. . ver mind, Wolf, me 1ad,” sighed Rip, “you do lead a canine’s existence. 1 wish witches would stick to riding Lroomsticks instead o' beating dogs with ‘em. I guesm it ain't no use to plant this corn teday. The ole fleld's got spinal meningitis and falling arches. without glving it corns. Let's £0 snipe a squirrel” Soon they hit the hills, and ambled to the highest peak. The sun was sneaking out of ‘sight. Rip sighed. It was time to go back—and catch it for not planting tHe corn. Just then he heard his name called. He went down'to see who it could be. Coming up the hill, almost bend- ing double under the weight of a huge keg, was a short bushy affair dressed in a leather Dutch jerkin. In silence he greeted Rip, and motioned to him to help with the keg. As they stumbled along, Rip heard long roli- ing peals. like thunder. Wolf acted like a peeved cat, and_ even Rip's back had so many goosebumps on it that he looked like a frog. They reached a sort of amphitheater and found a whole company of dittoes to his traveling companion playing at ninepins, with never the crevice of a smile on their faces. The game ended as they approached, and Rip's com- panion emptled the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs for him to serve the drinks. After serving all the silent little men, Rip poured himself a lysty wallop and sat down to quaff. “Hootch, by gum.” he chortled. “Real mountain’ dew! No home brew about this. Here's to you, little merry men, may you live long and broad.” “Wolt," he wheezed over his_third, “what's the bigges' things cats kill?— Kattskill muntains! Wolf, you ought- er got that.” ¥ou got about as much humor as a cry for help.” And Rip laughed at Welts varying ' expres- sions, and laughed himself fi: sleep. 1 he awoke the sun 'was He felt stiff from sleeping ground.’ He whistled ' fo Wolf, but the siraved r.'r.t When shining. on the dn! hi He reached for Wis gu. 1t was rusty and bent. He.scittered down the ‘mountain slde. thinkiag of all sorts of friend 7axs to f1y out | on the ne. As he reirhel town | strange dozs ba-kel at him. louses looked diffe-ent. His cwn housz grinmed at him through broken. dusty shutters. * k x ¥ ¢GOME grade ‘A bouillon them little merry men handed out,” he de- cifea as he saw how diTerent the inn lofRed. He asked for Nicholas Vedder, and they told him Nick had pegged out eighteen yeass ago. Then the strange meh asked him what ticket he voted, and hs was gcing to answer “Prohiolica,’ when Lis eve caught a portrait of a geatleman with a crccked hose and a straight smile, marked ~“Mr. *Washington,” hanging where George III had once swayed. “Where's George III. God blers ‘im?* he asked, and was about to be tarred for a tory when he asked if nobody remeniber>d Rip Van Win- ! kle. They pointed. out a tall, lank; counterpart of what he onze been, and Rip knew: Lo be At lasf he establisW®d hLis fo- ity and swapped his story for the one‘ of the revolutionary war then being waged. They all agreel tkat re'd been hootoh-Pounding with [lenry Hudson and his merry rg:n. wWho are said to haunt the Kaafskill moun-: tains, and had sleg! for twanty vears. ! A woman with a ehild in her arms turned out to be his little sirl 'd left behind, ‘and <0 her he v-.'czd the question that hai been troubling his repose. “Where's Mrs. Van Winkle? YWho— | paid the rent while—-" “Nobody, pop. She di1 ir. a stroke of apoplexy brought on by tryirg to stab a lendlora:™ y Bookkeeping in'Babylonia. PAI’ER and ink are perishable things, like certain other “md- ern improvements,” but some of the clay tablets used by the earlier eivil- izations survive. In the burned city of Nippur American explorers found in one room more than 700 og them the business records of a rich firm ot merchants, Ulurashu Sons These documents are dated in the reigne of Artaxerxes 1 (465-425 B. C.) and Darius 11 (423-405 B. C.). The tablets are of various sizes, some resembling the ordinary cake of soap of commerce. They are cover- ed with cuneiform chracters, clear and distinct as when the bookkeeper of Ulurashu inscribed them twenty- five hundred years ago. Among them is this guaranty for tWwenty- vears that an emerald is se: 80 well that it will not fall out: “Bel-adhiddina and Bel-shumu, sons of Bel, and Hatin, sons of Ba- zuza, spoke unto Bel son of Morashu, as follo’ cerns the gold ring s with an emerald, we guarantee that for twen- ty: years the emerald will not fall out of the ring. If it should fall out before the expiration of twenty years Bel-ahiddina (apd the two others) shall pay to Bél-nadinshumu an in- demnity of ten mana of silver.” Then follow the names of seven ‘witnesses and of an official who is described as “the scribe of the con- cordance of .proper med"” The documef® conclided with the thumb- ks the contracting parties. sun-dried bricks chandise, and for the loan of seed corn and oxen for plowing. and other. mer- “surrounded by neat border. 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