Identifier: boyhoodlawlessne00true (find matches)
Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)

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nities forplaying with crooked dice. It is one of the chief formsof sidewalk amusements in this neighborhood. Up above the sidewalks, on the roofs of the tene-ments, there is some flying of small kites, but pigeonflying is the chief sport. It provides an occupationless immediately remunerative, perhaps, than games ofchance, but developed by the same unmoral tendencieswhich seem to turn all play in the district into vice.Some boys, through methods of accretion peculiar tothis neighborhood, have a score or more of pigeonswhich are kept in the house, and taken up to the roofregularly every Sunday, and oftener during the sum-mer, for exercise. The birds are tamed and carefullytaught to return to their home roofs after flight, butingenious boys have discovered many ways of luringthem to alien roofs, so that now the sport of pigeonflying is as dangerously exciting as a commercial ven-ture in the days of the pirates. Pigeon owners alsotrain their birds to circle about the neighborhood and 28
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Pigeon Flying. A Roof Game

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