73 The Record-Holder

The record-holder

Children 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, travelled 1, 600 miles.

He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.

When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.