THE SKETCH BOOK

OF

GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts, which, methinks, are diversely e."-BURTON. presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene."

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

WASHINGTON IRVING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF,

TH: VOYAGE,

Roscoe,

THE WIFE,

RIP VAN WINKLE,

ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA,

RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND,

THE BROKEN HEART,

THE ART OF BOOK-MAKING, .

A ROYAL POET,

THE COUNTRY CHURCH, .

THE WIDOW AND HER SON,

A SUNDAY IN LONDON,

THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP,

THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE,

RURAL FUNERALS,

THE INN KITCHEN,

THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM,

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