

Transcribed from by the 1903 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.





                                   THE
                                ROMANY RYE


                          A Sequel to 'Lavengro'

                                   _By_
                              GEORGE BORROW

                     _WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION_
                             BY JOHN SAMPSON

                          _WITH A FRONTISPIECE_

                                  LONDON
                              METHUEN & CO.
                          36, ESSEX STREET, W.C.
                                MDCCCCIII

                        [Picture: Bushbury Church]




INTRODUCTION


'Lavengro' and 'The Romany Rye' are one book, though the former was
published in 1851 and the latter not until 1857.  After a slumber of six
years the ding