[00:10.76]Did the boy go where he wanted to? [00:15.41]Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. [00:20.83]A quiet days' fishing, [00:22.88]or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. [00:32.68]They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant travelled 1, 600 miles. [00:42.90]He hitchhiked to Dover and towards evening went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. [00:51.32]When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. [01:00.90]No one noticed the boy as he crept off. [01:04.89]From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. [01:09.46]The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. [01:18.09]The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, [01:26.40]but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. [01:31.54]There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. [01:39.10]He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.