The Record-Holder

The Record-Holder

Little boys who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day’s fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, traveled 1600 miles. He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up the next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, traveled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there he hitchhiked to Paris in the lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the center of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French by the local authorities. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of boys who dream of evading school.

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