Rip Van Winkle's Travels in Foreign Lands (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle's Travels in Foreign Lands With slow and silent steps he had turned from the throne of his power, and shut the gates of his little kingdom after him, and was sadly walking down the shady avenue, with his hands behind him, when his attention was arrested by the cheerful voice of one of his pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.