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Updated: June 4, 2025
We do love a lord and by that term I mean any person whose situation is higher than our own. The lord of the group, for instance: a group of peers, a group of millionaires, a group of hoodlums, a group of sailors, a group of newsboys, a group of saloon politicians, a group of college girls.
"You may have to haunt the most abominable places." "You seem to forget that I have haunted a good many abominable places. And if they are good enough for him they are good enough for me." "New York has the worst set of roughs in the world. Our hoodlums are lambs beside them." "I have no fear of anything but not finding him in time." "But that is not the worst.
In less time than it takes to tell it, five terrified hoodlums were "streaking it" in as many directions, their chins high with a mighty resolve, their legs working like pinwheels, their eyes popping and their mouths spread in speechless endeavor. Five seconds later you couldn't have found one of them with a telescope.
John C. Rhinds allowed his face to express more surprise than concern over this news. "Oh, well," he remarked, "boys will be boys, you know especially when they're sailors." "Our boys are not that sort," retorted Mr. Farnum, sharply. "They are not hoodlums or racketers." "Then of course you'll find 'em safe on one of your boats," proposed Mr. Rhinds, innocently.
That as much as anything has driven our genteel bluebirds away from our homes into the woods and other out-of-the-way places. How would you feel, my friend, if, as you were going along the street, a lot of hoodlums should take to gibing and hooting at you? Were there ever such pesky, ill-mannered citizens as the English sparrows?
"Oh, I can do it, all right." "Well, why don't you? I'm the easiest proposition you ever saw to be hazed by a bunch of hoodlums, such as you and your pals are!" "For two cents I'd punch your nose." "You're too cheap. I'll give you a heap more than that if you will. It's been so long since my nose was punched that it feels sort of lonesome.
They formed a nucleus for an adventurous, idle, pleasure-loving, dissipated set of young sports, who organized themselves into a loose band very much on the order of the East Side gangs in New York or the "hoodlums" in later San Francisco, with the exception, however, that these young men affected the most meticulous nicety in dress.
And while Arthur took up the tale, for the twentieth time, of his adventure with the drunken hoodlums on the ferry-boat and of how Martin Eden had rushed in and rescued him, that individual, with frowning brows, meditated upon the fool he had made of himself, and wrestled more determinedly with the problem of how he should conduct himself toward these people.
Such nocturnal excursions were not uncommon with them. Nor were they surprised to see the new habitat of their official sentinel bobbing against the wooded shore. Him they had come to regard with a kind of superstitious awe because he was so precipitate and decisive. The fact that he had allowed no time for preliminary threats and profanity, rather baffled these hoodlums.
Hooper listened; then voiced a further and evidently suggested opposition: "Them lads is from the town here; ain't they? Nothin' but a lot o' hoodlums down yan. You can't expec' " "You couldn't be more mistaken, Mr. Hooper. I'll admit there are a lot of young scamps in Fairview, but these boys, William Brown and Augustus Grier, belong to a more self-respecting bunch.
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