Identifier: boyhoodlawlessne00true (find matches)
Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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After the Battle HIS GANGS the throng of children in their immediate neighborhoodand first made for themselves a cave between two lum-ber piles in a neighboring yard. All one summer theymet in this hang-out; here they brought the loot/as they call the product of their marauding expeditions,threw craps, pitched pennies, played cards, smoked,told stories, and fought. But they were disturbed byearly disaster in the shape of the business needs of thelumber company, which one day caused their shack tobe torn down over their heads. They made their head-quarters next in the empty basement of a tenement, butsoon moved at the well reinforced request of the land-lord. After an exiled period of meeting on the streetcorners, the boys conceived the idea of building theirown habitation in the protection of their own homes.They began a small wooden structure in the areawayof the tenement in which the leader lived. But civilwar broke out, and in one unhappy culmination theleader of the gang chased hi

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