Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers))

One day Rip Van Winkle goes to the mountains with his dog, but who are the strange old men there? Why are they there and what are they drinking?
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is a teacher who likes ghost stories. Are there really ghosts at Sleepy Hollow and will Ichabod see one of them?

Classic American short stories by Washington Irving (1783-1859).