Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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HEAD OF A WINNER. game is universally popular in the colony; in and near Melbourne thereare two or three cricket-grounds splendidly equipped with everythingthat players or spectators could desire, and when notable games areplayed they are sure to draw large crowds. The interior cities andtowns have their cricket-grounds, and every vacant lot in Melbournelarge enough for a game is the resort of larrikins and other youths,from seven years old and upwards, all intent upon cricket. In fact, thegame is to Australia what base-ball is to America. The Australian Eleven, and its successful competition with the All-England Eleven and other British clubs, is too well-known tocricket-players to require more than passing mention. It is no more LARRIKINS. 477
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than justice to say that the Aus-tralians are the champion cricket- a LuaicET .MAicH.players of the world. The larrikin of Australia, mentioned in the preceding paragraph,is the equivalent for the street arab of Xew York and the younghoodlum of San Francisco — a youth who .is subject to no parentalrestraint, and all too often is without any place he can call home. Underthese circumstances he is very apt to drift into vicious ways, and givesthe police a good deal of trouble. When Frank first heard the word larrikin, and heard its meaning, he naturally asked for its origin. J^obody knows positively, was the reply. The story goes thatyears ago a policeman arrested a boy whom he had caught in someviolation of the law. When called to testify against the young culjjritthe policeman, w^ho was a native of Dublin, gravely said, I caught him, yer honor, a larrikin (larking) around and makinga dale of noise. From that time to this, so the story goes, the turbulent youth ofAustralian cities and

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