A critical little girl eyed our couple curiously and made some remark to her ragamuffin friend.

The ragamuffin marionettes.

"He left San Francisco two years ago on a hundred-foot schooner, with an assistant, a big brass-bound chest, and a ragamuffin crew.

But he could ill brook solemnity, and before long parodied his own verses in the following ragamuffin fashion:

Of these, more desperate than others, A pair of ragamuffin brothers In secret ambuscade join'd forces, To carry on unlawful courses.

"We have a ragamuffin government and regulations that would commend themselves to the most judicious.

" The cymbals struck up, the cavalcade, headed by ragamuffin lictors with whips, went swaying past the gate.