BOY’S ADVENTURE.
WORLD TOUR CUT SHORT. ADELAIDE, Oct. 17. Covered from head to foot in dust, a 13-year-old boy was discovered on the Melbourne express shortly after the train arrived at Adelaide this morning. He Was found by railway employees in the ambulance van a few minutes after the train had been shunted out of the platform to be cleaned. The boy told the officials that be had travelled all the way from Melbourne on the undercarriage of a sleeper. He gave his name as Bernard Augustus McCartin, of Fitzroy, Melbourne. “I shivered all the way,” he said, “but I got something to eat each' time the train pulled up. I wanted to catch a beat at Port Adelaide to go around the world.” In his inside pocket the youthful traveller carried a map of (the world.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 282, 2 November 1925, Page 3
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