STOWED AWAY IN A TRUCK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 4

STOWED AWAY IN A TRUCK.

BOY'S ADVENTURE. (By TolcErnpli.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, April i. Basil Arnold, a fourloen-year-okl Grain. , mar School boy, had an experience on Monday which he is not likely soon to ■fovet.' although Hie memory of it will pos"iblv not be nltoßfither unpleasant. lie left his home in Ligai; Place about half-past ciirht in the morning to ro to school as.nsiial. It appears that a vigor-, (ins mid cxcitiiiß Rami) "J " hi,re . " nd hounds" was an important itan before school that morning, and the nappy liimtiiiß fii'Oiiml for die occasion was the vicinitv of (lie railway yards. Yomi" Arnold stowed himself awny in ono of the tnicks-a tempttns enough hiding-place for an cnlwprisins? schoolbnv. '» •■> I'" , ' niiiiuii-s. however, he was startled to find his hidinp-pllieo movillff off with him. Ho had, as ho now found, made himself part of the enreo of a madom> "omU liMin waitinjr in the yard, and. before ho had an opportunity to leave hi* hidiiiK-phoc the train was at Mercer. From there ho started doßßcdly .0 walk liomr-. and maintamrd his pedestrian per-'.i-itonev until, fiimlly, he veoched hit home, "and reported himself to his anxious people about six o'clock on luesday Ho was nono the. worse for his adventure, and probably, in years lo come, hi will have cause to frol proud of the fact tliat lio pot ont of ln's scrape as he had pot into it—entirely by his own ellorts. A few apples, secured by means that were not made the subject of spei'ial inquiry, worn Hie only Mistenniicc which h« had ' on his journey.