six-boy

Updated: May 16, 2025

The same with the army; the same with the literary and journalistic craft; the publishing craft; the cod-fishery craft; Standard Oil; U. S. Steel; the class A hotel and the rest of the alphabet in that line; the class A prize-fighter and the rest of the alphabet in his line clear down to the lowest and obscurest six-boy gang of little gamins, with its one boy that can thrash the rest, and to whom he is king of Samoa, bottom of the royal race, but looked up to with a most ardent admiration and envy.

Mark Twain - The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories