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]