Children escaping from school lack imagination. What they can do at most is fishing quietly for a day or sitting in a movie theater for eight hours, watching the same film again and again. However, there is one boy who travelled 1,600 miles while he was escaping the school. That made other kids who escape from school look dumb. He took a ride to Dover, then boarded on a ship to find a place to sleep. He found out, when he woke up the next morning, that the ship had arrived at Calai. No body spotted him when he got off the ship. From there, he ws given a lift by a truck driver going to Paris. The driver gave him some crackers and a cup of coffee, then dropped him off outside of the city. The boy stopped another car. But he was taken to Perpignan, the border of Spain and France, instead of of the center of Paris that he was hoping for. He was caught by a poilce officer there and was sent back by authority to Britain. Without a doubt, he has created a record for thousands of kids who dream of escaping school.
逃學的孩子們都缺乏想像力。他們通常能夠做到的，至多也就是安靜地釣上一天魚，或在電影院裏坐上8個小時，一遍遍地看同一部電影。而有那麽一個小男孩，他 在逃學期間旅行了1,600英裏，從而使上述所有逃學的孩子們都相形見絀了。他搭便車到了多佛，天快黑時鑽進了一條船，想找個地方睡覺。第二天早上他醒來 時，發現船在這段時間已經到了加來。當男孩從船裏爬出來時，誰也沒有發現他。從那裏他又搭上卡車到了巴黎。司機給了他幾塊餅幹和一杯咖啡，就把他丟在了城 外。男孩截住的下一輛車，沒有像他希望的那樣把他帶到巴黎市中心，而是把他帶到了法國和西班牙邊界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那兒被一個警察抓住了，之後被當局送 回了英國。他無疑為成千上萬夢想逃避上學的孩子們創造了一項紀錄。
