ial, and condemned
to death, but by the influence of _Gabriel Varden_, the locksmith, the
poor half-witted lad was reprieved, and lived the rest of his life with
his mother in a cottage and garden near the Maypole.

Here he lived, tending the poultry and the cattle, working in a
garden of his own, and helping every one. He was known to every
bird and beast about the place, and had a name for every one. Never
was there a lighter-hearted husbandman, a creature more popular
with young and old, a blither and more happy soul than
Barnaby.--Ch. lxxxii.

_Mr. Rudge_, the father of Barnaby, supposed to have been murdered the
same night as Mr. Haredale, to whom he was steward. The fact is that
Rudge himself was the murderer both of Mr. Haredale and also of his
faithful servant, to whom the crime was falsely attributed. After the
murder, he was seen by many haunting the locality, and was supposed to
be a ghost. He joined the Gordon rioters when they attacked and burnt to
the ground the house of Mr. Haredale, the son of the murdered man, and
being arrested (ch. lvi.), was sent to Newgate, but made his escape with
the other prisoners when it was burnt down by the rioters. Being
betrayed by Dennis, he was brought to trial for murder, but we are not
told if he was executed (ch. lxxiii.). His name is not mentioned again,
and probably he suffered death.

_Mrs. [Mary] Rudge_, mother of Barnaby, and very like him, "but where
in his face there was wildness and vacancy, in hers there was the
patient composure of long effort and quiet resignation." She was a
widow. Her husband (steward at the Warren), who murdered his master, Mr.
Haredale, and his servant, told her of his deed of blood a little before
the birth of Barnaby, and the woman's face ever after inspired terror.
It was thought for many years that Rudge had been murdered in defending
his master, and Mrs. Rudge was allowed a pension by Mr. Haredale, son
and heir of the murdered man. This pension she subsequently refused to
take. After the reprieve of Barnaby, Mrs. Rudge lived with him in a
cottage near the Maypole, and her last days were her happiest. C.
Dickens, _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841).

=Ru'diger=, a wealthy Hun, liegeman of Etzel, sent to conduct Kriemhild to
Hungary. When G[:u]nther and his suite went to visit Kriemhild, Rudiger
entertained them all most hospitably, and gave his daughter in marriage
to Giselher (Kriemhild's brother). In the broi