Still he was so much interested in hearing him talk, that he continued to walk with him up the hill.

Finally, the sailor fairly proposed to him to run away and go to sea with him.
"O no," said Marco, "I wouldn't do such a thing for the world.
Besides," said he, "they would be after us, and carry me back." "No," said the sailor; "we would cut across the country, traveling in the night and laying to by day, till we got to another stage route, and then make a straight wake, till we got to New Bedford, and there we could get a good voyage.

Come," said he, "let's go to-night.

I'll turn right about.

I don't care a great deal about seeing my mother." Though Marco was a very bold and adventurous sort of a boy, still he was not quite prepared for such a proposal as this.