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bors’ boys to inquire; but no one could tell
any thing of him.

‘His father then began to think he had
run away ; and he took a horse and wagon
to go after him. He thought it most likely
that he had gone across the cape; and so he
took that road. He travelled in that direc-
tion nearly all the afternoon, inquiring of
every one he saw, but nobody had seen any
such boy ; and so he came home, and con-
cluded he must have gone the other road,
towards New Bedford, and the next morning
he set out in that direction.

‘In the mean time, Jack had travelled all
the first night, and pretty much all the next
day ; and the second night he slept in a tav-
erm, supposing that now the danger was
over. But after all, he was not yet quite
twenty miles from home. He was so tired
with his walk, that he did not get up till
quite late the next morning ; and his father
rode up to the door of the tavern just as he
was going out to begin his second day’s
journey. Of course he took him into his
wagon, and carried him home again.”

“Did he whip him?” said Rollo.

“No,” replied Jonas. “He had been so