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* Brief introduction Rip Van Winkle is a hunter living in New York in 1760s. One day walking in the Catskill Mountains he is lured into a secluded glen by a strange and small man. Rip decides to join the man and his companions in a game of bowling. While they play, Rip drinks a mysterious potion that makes him fall asleep for twenty years. When Rip wakes up and returns home, it is Election Day and everything has changed. People are crowded around him, not recognizing him. They are questioning him while he is trying to explain himself and at the same time make sense of his surroundings. Whoever has journeyed up the long Hudson River will remember the Catskill Mountains. Rising up to the west of the river, these mountains look different with each change in weather or time of day. Even when the rest of the land is cloudless, the Catskill Mountains at dusk hold a misty blanket around themselves, glowing with the rays of the setting sun. It is said that in these misty mountains, strange magic can sometimes take place. Such a mysterious and magical thing happened long ago to a man named Rip Van Winkle. Rip lived in a village at the foot of the mountains. He was well-known in the village. Rip Van Winkle lived in a comfortable house that he had built with his own two hands. He had a doting wife who took good care of the couples several children. These children were all rosy-cheeked and happy, and they all loved their father. Rip Van Winkle had a doting wife and rosy-cheeked children. Rip would gather his children around him and play games with them. The children and their father would fly kites and shoot marbles. Late at night around the familys fireplace, Rip would tell the children stories of ghosts and witches and the wild frontier. Rip Van Winkle was a good father and a good man who enjoyed his life. One of Rips favorite things to do was to hike among the beautiful Catskill Mountains. He loved to look at the plants and animals t