RUN A WA Y FROM HOME. 161

 the past day's adventures felt like a bad dream. He
 could hardly realise that every moment he was being
 carried farther from home and from his native land.
 Yet the remembrance of this, and of the injustice
 with which he considered that he had been treated,
 brought no sigh to his breast nor tear to his eye.
 All at once, however, he burst into loud and irre-
 pressible sobs and floods of tears.
 What had caused this sudden and violent emo-
 tion ?
 It was the recollection that this was the first
 night, since her birth, that he had not kissed his
little sister Polly!



















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