Stay! delay your judgement one moment till I bring the best of proofs—his child and sister. [Exit.
Herman.
If you are Rip Van Winkle, some one here would surely recognize you.
Rip.
To be sure dey will! every one knows me in Catskill. [All gather round him and shake their heads.] No, no, I don't know dese peoples—dey don't know me neither, and yesterday dere was not a dog in the village but would have wagged his tail at me; now dey bark. Dere's not a child but would have scrambled on my knees—now dey run from me. Are we so soon forgotten when we're gone? Already dere is no one wot knows poor Rip Van Winkle.
Herman.
So, indeed, it seems.
Rip.
And have you forgot de time I saved your life?
Herman.