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.
<h3>What is the theme of Told in the Drooling Ward?</h3>
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.
