The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Runaway, by Unknown

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The Runaway
The Adventures of Rodney Roverton

Author: Unknown

Release Date: May 25, 2007 [EBook #21611]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RUNAWAY ***

Produced by David Edwards, Suzan Flanagan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The University of Florida, The Internet
Archive/Children's Library)

--------------------------------------------------

[Illustration: pp. 29]

--------------------------------------------------

THE RUNAWAY;

OR, THE

ADVENTURES OF RODNEY ROVERTON.

"He cast his bundle on his back, and went,
He knew not whither, nor for what intent;
So stole our vagrant from his warm retreat,
To rove a prowler, and be deemed a cheat."

CRABBE.

APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.

BOSTON:
NEW ENGLAND SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
W. HEATH, 79 CORNHILL.

--------------------------------------------------

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

WILLIAM HEATH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS,
Boston.

--------------------------------------------------

INTRODUCTION.

A truthful narrative, not a tale of fiction, is presented in
the following chapters to our readers. All that the imagination
has contributed to it has been the names of the actors,--true
names having been withheld, lest, perhaps, friends might be
grieved,--the filling up of the dialogues, in which, while
thoughts and sentiments have been remembered, the verbiage that
clothed them has been forgotten, and, in a few instances, the
grouping together of incidents that actually occurred at wider
intervals than here represented, for the sake of the unity of
the story.