The title character owns the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country, and he and his dog Wolf are constantly berated by his wife.
In this story, the landlord of an inn who moves his seat during the day to avoid direct sunlight is named Nicholas Vedder, but Vedder is eventually replaced by Jonathan Doolittle. The title character owns the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country, and he and his dog Wolf are constantly berated by his wife. That title character almost gets in trouble for calling himself a loyal subject of the king after a night in the Catskills in which he had a lot to drink while some odd-looking characters played ninepins. First appearing in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, name this Washington Irving story about a man who misses the American Revolution because of oversleeping.
In this story, the landlord of an inn who moves his seat during the day to avoid direct sunlight is named Nicholas Vedder, but Vedder is eventually replaced by Jonathan Doolittle.
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