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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
93
Finally,
he
ran
away
from
home,
he
said.
At
first
he
found
that
a
wholly
new
place
and
new
people
took
him
out
of
himself
("surprised
me,"
he
said,
"so
that
I
could
not
live
everything
beforehand").
Thus
he
fled.
The
slang
he
used,
"chased
himself
all
over
the
country,"
seemed
peculiarly
expressive.
He
had
been
in
foreign
countries;
he
had
herded
sheep
in
Australia
(so
he
said),
and
certainly
from
his
knowledge
of
the
country
he
had
wandered
with
the
gamboleros
of
South
America;
he
had
gone
for
gold
to
Alaska,
and
worked
in
the
lumber
camps
of
the
Pacific
Northwest.
But
he
could
not
escape,
he
said.
In
a
short
time
he
was
no
longer
"surprised."
His
account
of
his
travels,
while
fragmentary,
had
a
peculiar
vividness.
He
saw
what
he
described,
and
he
saw
it
so
plainly
that
his
mind
ran
off
into
curious
details
that
made
his
words
strike
sometimes
like
flashes
of
lightning.
A
strange
and
wonderful
mind--uncontrolled.
How
that
man
needed
the
discipline
of
common
work!
I
have
rarely
listened
to
a
story
with
such
rapt
interest.
It
was
not
only
what
he
said,
nor
how
he
said
it,
but
how
he
let
me
see
the
strange
workings
of
his
mind.
It
was
continuously
a
story
of
a
story.
When
his
voice
finally
died
down
I
drew
a
long
breath
and
was
astonished
to
perceive
that
it
was
nearly
midnight--and
Harriet
speechless
with
her
emotions.
For
a
moment
he
sat
quiet
and
then
burst
out:
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