. Elkington, `Tenth Report of Education,
Victoria,' dated Feb. 14:

"My inquiries into the origin and habits of that troublesome
parasite the larrikin (if I may adopt Constable Dalton's term)
do not make me sanguine that compulsory primary instruction can
do much for him, unless indirectly."

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), May 15, p. 21, col. 3:

"On Sunday night an unfortunate Chinaman was so severely
injured by the Richmond larrikins that his life was
endangered."

1875. David Blair, in `Notes and Queries,' July 24, p. 66:

"Bedouins, Street Arabs, Juvenile Roughs in London; <i>Gamins
</i> in Paris; Bowery Boys in New York; Hoodlums to San
Francisco; Larrikins in Melbourne. This last phrase is an
Irish constable's broad pronunciation of `larking' applied to
the nightly street performances of these young scamps, here as
elsewhere, a real social pestilence."

1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 338:

"There is not a spare piece of ground fit for a pitch anywhere
round Melbourne that is not covered with `larrikins' from six
years old upwards."

1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 159:

"It has become the name for that class of roving vicious young
men who prowl about public-houses and make night hideous in
some of the low parts of our cities. There is now the bush
`larrikin' as well as the town `larrikin,' and it would be
difficult sometimes to say which is the worse. Bush
`larrikins' have gone on to be bushrangers."

1890. `The Argus,' May 26, p. 6, col. 7:

"He was set upon by a gang of larrikins, who tried to rescue
the prisoner."

1891. `Harper s Magazine,' July, p. 215, col. 2:

"The Melbourne `larrikin' has differentiated himself from the
London `rough,' and in due season a term had to be developed to
denote the differentiation."

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 12, p. 13, col. 2:

"Robert Louis Stevenson, in a recent novel, `The Wrecker,'
makes the unaccountable mistake of confounding the unemployed
Domain loafer with the larrikin. This only shows that Mr.
Stevenson during his brief visits to Sydney acquired but a
superficial knowledge of the underlying currents of our social
life."

1896. J. St. V. Welch, in `Australasian Insurance and Banking
Record,' May 19, p. 376:

"Whence comes the larrikin? that pest of these so-called
over-educated colonies; the young loafer of from sixteen to
eight-and-twenty. Who does not know him, with his weedy,
contra