L. E. has a fair home ten miles from Boston; both parents are living. This boy was fourteen years of age by the time he was finally committed to a Reform School and had run away from home eight times. He went the first time when eleven years old. His reason for going always was: “I like to see places.” The places were, however, all near-by. _Trip A._ “Went to F---- to the military encampment; stayed there two days. Walked to B---- [twenty miles] and stopped around the wharves. Begged something to eat. Slept in alleyways and in mission. Policemen caught me; took me to the station till father came and got me.” _Trip B._ “Went to R---- to watch them drive cows to get killed. Stopped there for three days and worked for something to eat by driving cows. Slept in the stockyard barn.” _Trip C._ “Went to W---- to see them make guns and stopped at Arsenal two days. Went to C---- to a boy’s house that I knew. Went to theatre, stopped out too late; policeman took me; father came and got me.” _Trip D._ “Went to H---- to the place where they keep warships. Stayed there a week looking at guns and things. Went on errands for men; slept in a barn; took some apples off a fruit stand; policeman took me; father came and got me.” _Trip E._ “Went to B---- again; liked to go to places. Went out for a week, catching fish [salt water fishing]; went out as far as a lighthouse; slept in a bunk. After return stayed in B---- four days. Went to R---- again to see them kill cows. Policeman took me; father came and got me.” _Boy Number 2_