When the narrator asks the boys about their plans, they are evasive. Why don't they disclose their problems?

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The two boys did not want the narrator to know of their problems because they were strong and courageous kids in the face of adversity who did not want a stranger to sympathise with them. They were confident kids who would rather work hard and earn in order to find solutions of the same on their own.

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