gamin

Now began what she called her literary school-boy life (vie d'ecolier litteraire), her vie de gamin.

Little cared for by his father, he was brought up by his grandfather, a tailor, who let him roam the streets as a gamin.

Master and dog were hustled outside the gate and into a rabble of jeering slum gamin.

"Neither Georges nor the Dragon are honest souls enough to trust themselves with their cups," said the knowing gamin.