HAARE AND HOUNDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 29

HAARE AND HOUNDS.

BOY'S NOVEL ADVENTURE. (From Ocb Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, April 4. Basil Arnold, a 14-year-old Grammar School boy, had an experience on Monday which" he is not likely soon to forgot, although the memory of it will possibly not bo altogether unpleasant. He left his home in Ligar place about 8.30 a.m. to go to school as usual. It appears that a vigorous and exciting game of hare and hounds was an important item before school that morning, and the happy hunting ground for the occasion was the vieinity of the railway yards. Young Arnold stowed himself away in on« of the trucks —a tempting hiding place for an enterprising schoolboy. In a few minutes ho was startled to find his hiding place moving off with him. He had made himself part of the cargo of a made-up goods train waiting in the yard, and before the bov had an opportunity to leave his hiding place the train was at Mercer. From there he started doggedly to walk home, and maintained his pedestrian persistency until finally he reached hia homo and reported himself to his anxious people about 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening. He was none the worse for his adventure, and probably in years to come he will have cause to feel" proud of the fact that lie got out of his scrape as he had got into ft entirely by his own efforts. A few apples, secured by means that were not made the subject "of special inquiry, were the only sustenance he had on hid jour« ney.