First Lines: Washington Irving - The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

While engaged in writing an account of the gran enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject.

First Lines: Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle

(art: N.C. Wyeth)

The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers.