Sixth reader for the use of schools . as as courageous ananimal as ever scoured the woods—but what courage can withstandthe ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a womans tongue? Themoment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped tothe ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with agallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,and at the least flourish of a broomstici: or ladle, he would f y to tl)edoor with yelping precipitation. LXXIL-KIP VAN WINKLE—(Continued.) 1. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as yearsof matrimony rolled on ; a
Sixth reader for the use of schools . as as courageous ananimal as ever scoured the woods—but what courage can withstandthe ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a womans tongue? Themoment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped tothe ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with agallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,and at the least flourish of a broomstici: or ladle, he would f y to tl)edoor with yelping precipitation. LXXIL-KIP VAN WINKLE—(Continued.) 1. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as yearsof matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, andft sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grow» keener with const RIP VAN WINKLE. 18? trse. For a long time he was used to console himself, when drivenfrom home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages,philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which heldits sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicundportrait of His Majesty George the 2. Here they usel to sit in the shaJe through a long lazy sum-mers day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endlesssleepy stories about nothing. But it would have been worth anystatesmans money to have heard the profound discussions that some-times took place, when by chance au old newspaper fell into theirii;ds from some passing traveler. IIow solemnly they wouldlisten to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Eummel, thesclioolmastcr, a dapper learnod little man, who was not to be dauntedby the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how sagely theywould deliberate upoa public events some months after they hadtaken place. 188 THE SIXTH KEADEll. o. The opinions of this junto were completely controlled byNicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn,at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, justmoving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of alarge tree ; so that the
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