His elder companions deemed it very imprudent for such a mere child.David collected his clothes and the little a tobacco leaf money he had, and hid them in a bundle under his bed.And then the fear that when I should attempt to go out I should be discovered and called to a halt, filled me with anxiety.When he reached the end of his journey, so many weary leagues from a tobacco leaf home, the only way by which he could return was to attach himself to some emigrant party or some company of teamsters, and walk back, paying for such food as he might consume, by the assistance he could render on the way.The men were up, harnessing their teams.A boy, much larger than himself, a tobacco leaf had offended him.The little fellow pressed along, about one hundred and twenty five miles, down the valley between the Alleghany and the Blue ridges, until he reached Montgomery Court House.He cut a stout hickory stick, and with oaths declared that he would give his boy an eternal sight worse whipping than a tobacco leaf the master would give him, unless he went directly back to school.His eyes flashed fire.With his friend Myers he pressed a tobacco leaf on, farther and farther from home, to Gerardstown.He was very careful not again to overtake him.The man shall give you back your money, or I a tobacco leaf will thrash it out of him.There was no danger of his starving and exposures, which many would deem hardships, were no hardships for him.Here the boy's contract came to an a tobacco leaf end.