The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-25

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move this bar to a credita bic standing
in the school, Roy had one of his boy
friends write him an excuse, signing
! it "Mr. Olsen,' and asking the teacneI
to excuse the boy for his absence
Thursday afternoon. because, he mao
been kept at home to work. The note
| was written in a boyish hand a%nQ %
| aroused the teachers suspicious, Out
she said nothing.
Monday morning Roy went to
| school as usual but at IL O'Clock ne
| asked his teacher to be excused, stat
| ing that his mother had given MN d
| note asking the teacher to excuse him
! in order that he might go up. town on
an errand He said he had lost the
note The teacher, however, did not
/ fall for the ruse and the boy was not
| excused. At noon Mrs. Olsen directed
| Roy to go to a certain house ana get
| a bundle of washing. He started, put
| before he had proceeded very far pc
| came involved in an interesting game
| of top-spinning. Mrs. Olsen on her
way up town saw her son engaged IN
! top-spinning, but he saw her hrst ana
| immediately had a "hunch" TO go
away from there. The lad got the
| home and as his mother was not there
he decided to remain out of school Tor
the afternoon. He muttered some
thing about mot being around nome
much longer but his sisters PAID no
attention to his mutterings.
Trouble About an Excuse.
Tuesday morning Roy asked his
mother to give him an excuse stating
that she had kept him home to work
Monday afternoon. Mrs. olsen De
clined to do this, but she wrote n0te
to the boys teacher stating that his
absence from school had been caused
bv his stopping to play. The mother
also requested the teacher to see that
Row was sent home Immediately after
school was dismissed each day.
teacher Roy read it as he started out
of the door about $3.50 to go TO school.
1t was then that he decided to leave
the parental roof-tree for good and
heed the call of the road and go into
the big. broad world and carve out
name for himself.
"When 1 left the house." said Roy
this morning, "I didn't go to scnooI AT
all I went on down the street to the
Santa Fe depot and waited around
there. / thought would catch train
and go out to San Diego, Cal, to see
nv sister who lives out there. A1teT
while I left the Santa Fe station ana
walked over to the Rock Island depot:
I waited around there for while ana
finally started to walk down the
tracks. kept on walking down the
leave home for good and wasn't com |
ing back. And 1 didn't come back. |
either. but my father came after me |
and brought me back. 1 didn't wal
to come back and 1 am going away
again. too.
Island tracks and about L O'Clock IN |
the afternoon L got hungry and pretty |
soon saw the brickyard at Mr.. Boyd |
and 1 went over to the mousse
Gave a Fictitious Name.
Mr.. Boyd furnished some informa-
ton concerning the boys arrival at ms |
home. He said that the lad gave his
name as Roy Burns and stated that
his mother had put him on a freight
train at Springfield, Mo-, and ne had
travelled a long time and when he got |
out of the box car he found himself in /
he railroad yards at Topeka. The boy
told Mr. Boyd that he was on his way
to California. He semed to nave out
little information concerning MS par
ants The boy told story or wan
1erings and said he had been across
he Great Lakes
Mr.. Boyd told the lad he would give
lim a job and after he had eaten din
Ter was put to work helping the lady
If the house in the kitchen, peeling
potatoes and washing dishes Mr.
Boyd called up Secretary Justus of the
2rovident association and informed
he latter of the boys arrival, think
ng he had probably run away from
Topeka or Kansas City.
The runaway lad worked at the
Boyd home Tuesday afternoon ana all
lay yesterday until his father came
l1ter MN IN q Du5Sy " IdhO AtAhAA |
lome He was very much disappointed
It having to return home and he said
oday if he had known his father was
coming after him he would have
'hiked'' out again. He had enjoyed
himself while on his jaunt and he said
lie intended to go out in the neighbor-
lood of the brickyard again where an
Id couple had promised him home
where he could do chores and go to
chool.
His attitude this morning was sullen
ind apparently belligerent. He
hought he had been sufficiently edu-
.ated for all practical purposes and he
wanted to become little wage-earner
any further delay. Mrs. OIL
en stated that if the boy continues
dissatisfied he may be permitted to go
nut into the country to work for the
I'D couple and go to school during the
chool year and then in the summer
le could work on the farm and be out
# the way of mischief in the city.
Mrs Olsen declared that she was
mighty glad to get her boy back again.
afe and well, and she emphatically
lenied the report that when her son
vas returned to her home she "inter-
-ieWed him in the woodshed."