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and Rip Van Winkle, are essentially humorous stories, although they are o'erspread with the genial light of reminiscence. It is the armchair geniality of the eighteenth century essayists, a constituent of the author rather than of his material and product. Irving's best humorous creations, indeed, are scarcely short stories at all, but rather essaylike sketches, or sketchlike essays. James Lawson (1799-1880) in his Tales and Sketches: by a Cosmopolite (1830), notably in The Dapper Gentleman's Story

rainwater. They construct such ponds at several places and use the water for survival or for supplemental irrigation. In foothill region of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, farmers have rainwater harvesting structures in the form of village ponds for domestic and livestock use and farm ponds for irrigating winter crops during stress. But there is need of improvement over the traditional practices, where at the bottom LDPE sheets can be placed to check seepage losses. 137 S. Arora & M. Hadda CONCLUSION

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