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lesson 73 a record holder

children who playing truant from school are unimaginative. a quiet days fishing or eight hours in the cinama seeing the same film over and over agin is usually as far as they get. they had all been put to shame by a boy who ,while playing truant, travelled 1600miles. he hitchhiked to Doved and towards evening went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. when he woke up next morning. He discovered the boat had, in the meantime travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. from there he hitchhid to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup coffee and left him just out side the city.The next car the boy stop did not take him into the centre Prias as he hoped it would. But to Perpignan on the French Spanish border. there he pick up by a police man and sentengland by local authorities. He has surelly set up a record for the thousand of children who dream of evading school.