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Characters

• Rip Van Winkle - a henpecked husband who loathes 'profitable labor'.
• Dame Van Winkle - Rip Van Winkle's cantankerous wife.
• Rip - Rip Van Winkle's son.
• Judith Gardenier - Rip Van Winkle's daughter.
• Derrick Van Bummel - the local schoolmaster and later a member of Congress.
• Nicholas Vedder - landlord of the local inn.
• Mr. Doolittle - a hotel owner.
• Wolf - Rip's faithful and equally lazy dog
• The Ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew - Ghosts that share magic liquor with van Winkle.