boy-persecutors

Updated: August 25, 2026

Now and then somebody's pet monkey would escape along the stone walls and shed-roofs, and try to hide from his boy-persecutors by dodging behind a chimney, or by slipping through an open scuttle, to the terror and delight of juveniles whose premises he invaded.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)