Reactions of Children to Me

I was walking alone down a deserted dirt road. There were no other people in sight. I came around a bend to find a small boy of five or six. He was about a hundred yards from me, carrying two jerry cans for water. When he saw he me stopped dead in his tracks. After two seconds frozen, he turned and started running as fast as he could back the way he'd come. Every ten steps he would look back to see if I was chasing him. He kept up this way, hauling full-tilt ass, until he was out of sight around the bend. I never saw him again.