NAT GOULD'S ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL 



THE RUNAWAYS 



A COMPLETE NEW AND ORIGINAL STORY 



By NAT GOULD 



With Coloured Frontispiece and other Illustrations by HARINGTON BIRD. 

 1 60 pp. medium 8vo, is. 



PRESS OPINIONS 



"NAT GOULD'S ANNUAL. That well-known writer of sporting novels, 

 Nat Gould, has presented to his numerous readers a full-flavoured Christmas 

 annual, based on the old-fashioned lines. There is the good old hunting 

 squire ; his son, whom a fancied difference has caused to leave home for a 

 while ; his ward, who marries a neighbouring squire, who not only has a 

 past, but a wicked present, in which racing debts and the head trainer's 

 daughter play their part. Things are a bit wrong for a year or two, then 

 the wicked young squire breaks his neck while hunting ; the head trainer's 

 daughter returns home, and the widow, after a decorous interval, marries 

 the man she should have taken first." Oban Times. 



"'Nat Gould's Annual,' 'The Runaways,' is by the well-known 

 racing novelist, Mr Nat Gould, which achieves the double purpose of 

 working out a romantic love story amid circumstances of keen interest 

 in hunting and horseflesh of the good old English fashion. The pretty 

 daughter of the stud manager disappears, and the choleric old squire, 

 having had a hasty quarrel with his equally high-spirited son, 

 believes they have gone off together. The real villain, of course, plays 

 skilfully upon their mutual obstinacy ; but, whatever his faults and his ex- 

 travagance, treats a vulgar little blackmailer as he deserves. A wonderful 

 racehorse is made the means of bringing the unsuspecting father and son 

 together again, and the accident attendant upon a mad and reckless ride 

 in the hunting field dispenses with any other form of retribution, and the 

 Christmas bells ring merrily across the final scene." Nottingham 

 Guardian. 



"The current number of ' Nat Gould's Annual ' consists of a new and 

 original story entitled ' The Runaways. ' It is a good romance, in which 

 the 'horsey' element that is so fully developed in some specimens of 

 humanity is much in evidence. But ' The Runaways ' are human, not 

 equine. Redmond Maynard's son, Ulick, and Janet, the daughter of Eli 

 Todd, the keeper of Maynard's stud, have disappeared. This is the begin- 

 ning of trouble both to the squire and his faithful servant. The two young 

 people went away about the same time, but there is no actual evidence that 

 they are together. Eli and the Squire have their doubts, however, and 

 master and man come into sharp conflict over the matter. This is a read- 

 able story, and the pages are enlivened by a number of good illustrations 

 by Harington Bird." Dundee Advertiser. 



LONDON : R. A. EVERETT & CO., LTD., 

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