In the original form of publication the Rogue was very favorably received.

"One of these authors," says another writer, "(the fellow that was pilloried, I have forgotten his name), is indeed so grave, sententious, dogmatical a rogue that there is no enduring him."*

"Wait till you get across the Oregon line into the Rogue River Valley," they were told.

As Bradley walked on meditating, the Rogue walked on at his side muttering.

They moved quickly, following my smallest gesture, and they gave him the look of a very thorough rogue . But at the moment he was all heartiness and good-fellowship.

"Here are hanging the great rogue of the name of John de Witt, and the little rogue Cornelius de Witt, his brother, two enemies of the people, but great friends of the king of France."

Partridge certainly saw it in that light; for he testified much dissatisfaction on the occasion, quoted an old proverb, and said, he should not wonder if the rogue attacked them again before they reached London.

"O Zarathustra," answered the ugliest man, "thou art a rogue !

"Mine is not that," said Sancho; "I mean he has nothing of the rogue in him; on the contrary, he has the soul of a pitcher; he has no thought of doing harm to anyone, only good to all, nor has he any malice whatever in him; a child might persuade him that it is night at noonday; and for this simplicity I love him as the core of my heart, and I can't bring myself to leave him, let him do ever such foolish things."

The hero's rogue servant, Chispa, seemed to me, then and long afterwards, so fine a bit of Spanish character that I chose his name for my first pseudonym when I began to write for the newspapers, and signed my legislative correspondence for a Cincinnati paper with it.

One day, two rogues , calling themselves weavers, made their appearance.