a
character in a tale (1819) by
Washington Irving,
American essayist, biographer and historian (1783–1859).
Rip wanders through the mountains with his
dog when he meets some dwarfs and drinks from their keg. He falls asleep and wakes twenty years later, an
old man. He
returns to his town and finds his
termagant wife
dead, his daughter married, etc.
—NVRD Approved Glossary