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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