In the canon
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1893
- Pages
- Pages 110
A boy stands on a heap of gravel in Rum Alley, flinging stones at the howling children of Devil's Row, and it is very nearly the tenderest scene in the book. That is the world Maggie Johnson is born into: smashed furniture, a mother roaring in her chair, neighbours crowding the hall to watch.
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley.
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