Rodney Roverton has a kind home and cannot bear it, so he resolves to run away. In New York he finds a patron, in Philadelphia he finds trouble, and before long he is marched off by a constable for a theft he did not commit. The anonymous author insists that the story is a true one, with only the names changed.
An earnest nineteenth-century American cautionary tale for boys, interesting now for its picture of city life and Sunday-school morality. Download the free EPUB.