As they run away from home, the boy in "Told in the Drooling Ward" by Jack London encounters a man and a woman on horseback. The man had a gun on his saddle. It is the man who owns the ranch.
The them of the above story is one of Freedom.
Two boys, one of them named Joe decide that they are going to run away from a home for children without parents.
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