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Geographies. John admitted that it would
be very pleasant, and he meant to go some
day, but not then.

“< Well,’ said Jack, ‘I am determined to
go alone, if you won’t go with me ; and it
will be pretty soon too.’

“From this time, Jack said nothing about
going, either to John or to his father and
mother ; and they all thought he had given
up the plan. But he was very far from
having given it up. He had determined. to
run away. He knew very well that he
could not get any captain to take him at that
port without his father’s consent; but he
thought that, if he could get to New Bed-
ford, which was a very large seaport about
fifty miles off, along the coast, he could
easily manage to get to sea.

‘But how to get to New Bedford was the
difficulty. It was full fifty miles to New
Bedford, and he knew that he could not
walk there in less than three days. To be
on the road three days would cost him as
much as a dollar; and then he knew that he
must have as much as a dollar there, to pay
for his food and lodging, in case there was

ho ship going to sail immediately. So he
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