Rip, an indolent, good-natured Dutch-American, lives with his shrewish wife in a village on the Hudson during the years before the Revolution.

• 一天，当他带着叫做“狼”的狗在卡兹吉尔从山中打猎时，他遇到了一位身着古代荷兰服饰的矮小陌生人。