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    The Runaway Or, The Adventures of Rodney Roverton
    The Runaway Or, The Adventures of Rodney Roverton
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      The Runaway Or, The Adventures of Rodney Roverton - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Runaway, by Unknown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Runaway

      The Adventures of Rodney Roverton

      Author: Unknown

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

      Language: English

      *** 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)

      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.

      CONTENTS.

      page

      CHAPTER I.

      rodney unhappy in a good home

      7 CHAPTER II.

      revolving and resolving

      18 CHAPTER III.

      rodney in new york

      26 CHAPTER IV.

      rodney finds a patron

      33 CHAPTER V.

      rodney in philadelphia

      44 CHAPTER VI.

      the punishment begins

      53 CHAPTER VII.

      the watch-house

      60 CHAPTER VIII.

      rodney in jail

      73 CHAPTER IX.

      the dungeon

      88 CHAPTER X.

      the hospital

      99 CHAPTER XI.

      the trial

      118 CHAPTER XII.

      conclusion

      128

      THE RUNAWAY.

      CHAPTER I.

      RODNEY UNHAPPY IN A GOOD HOME.

      T was a lovely Sabbath morning in May, 1828, when two lads, the elder of whom was about sixteen years old, and the younger about fourteen, were wandering along the banks of a beautiful brook, called the Buttermilk Creek, in the immediate vicinity of the city of Albany, N. Y. Though there is no poetry in the name of this little stream, there is sweet music made by its rippling waters, as they rush rapidly along the shallow channel, fretting at the rocks that obstruct its course, and racing toward a precipice, down which it plunges, some thirty or forty feet, forming a light, feathery cascade; and then, as if exhausted by the leap, creeping sluggishly its little distance toward the broad Hudson. The white spray, churned out by the friction against the air, and flung perpetually upwards, suggested to our sires a name for this miniature Niagara; and, without any regard for romance or euphony, they called it Buttermilk Falls. It was a charming spot, notwithstanding its homely name, before the speculative spirit of progress—stern foe of Nature's beauties—had pushed the borders of the city close upon the tiny cataract, hewed down the pines upon its banks, and opened quarries among its rocks.

      It was before this change had passed over the original wilderness, that the lads whom we have mentioned were strolling, in holy time, upon the banks of the little stream, above the falls.

      Rodney, said the elder of the boys, suppose your mother finds out that you have run away from Sunday-school, this morning; what will she say to you?

      Why, she will be very likely to punish me, said Rodney; but you know I am used to it; and, though decidedly unpleasant, it does not grate on my nerves as it did a year or two ago. Van Dyke, my teacher, says I am hardened. But I would rather have a stroll here, and a flogging after it, than be shut up in school and church all day to escape it. I wish, Will, that mother was like your grandfather, and would let me do as I please on Sunday.

      Now that I am an apprentice, replied Will Manton, and shut up in the shop all the week, it would be rather hard to prevent my having a little sport on Sunday. I think it is necessary to swallow a little fresh air on Sunday, to blow the sawdust out of my throat; and to have a game of ball occasionally, to keep my joints limber, for they get stiff leaning over the work-bench, shoving the jack-plane, and chiseling out mortices all the week.

      Well, Will, I, too, get very sick of work, replied the younger boy. "I do not think I ever shall like it. When I am roused up early in the morning, and go into the shop, and look at the tools, and think that, all day long, I must stand and pull leather strands, while other boys can go free, and take their sport, and swim, or fish, or hunt, or play, just as they please,

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