The Runaway

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Unknown. The Runaway

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. RODNEY UNHAPPY IN A GOOD HOME

CHAPTER II. REVOLVING AND RESOLVING

CHAPTER III. RODNEY IN NEW YORK

CHAPTER IV. RODNEY FINDS A PATRON

CHAPTER V. RODNEY IN PHILADELPHIA

CHAPTER VI. THE PUNISHMENT BEGINS

CHAPTER VII. THE WATCH-HOUSE

CHAPTER VIII. RODNEY IN JAIL

CHAPTER IX. THE DUNGEON

CHAPTER X. THE HOSPITAL

CHAPTER XI. THE TRIAL

CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION

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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.

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.

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"But I should have to leave my mother, and grandmother, and sister, and all."

"Of course; you would not want to take them with you, would you?"

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