Crossword-Solution: LARRIKIN 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The flower you fancy is sweet has black in the place of the red; For this is a song of the street--the ballad of larrikin Ned.

The burden--the burden is their's who, watching this garden about, Assisted the thistle and tares, and stamped the divinity out! A growth like the larrikin Ned--a brutal unqualified clod, Is what ye are helping who'd tread on the necks of the prophets of God.

Melbourne and its Attractions--The Melbourne Cup Races--Cup Day--Great Crowds--Clothes Regardless of Cost--The Australian Larrikin--Is He Dead? --Australian Hospitality--Melbourne Wool-brokers--The Museums--The Palaces --The Origin of Melbourne CHAPTER XVII.

The larrikin differs by a shade from those others, in that he is more sociable toward the stranger than they, more kindly disposed, more hospitable, more hearty, more friendly.

Every night, on my way home at ten, or a quarter past, I found the larrikin grouped in considerable force at several of the street corners, and he always gave me this pleasant salutation: “Hello, Mark!” “Here's to you, old chap! “Say--Mark!--is he dead?”--a reference to a passage in some book of mine, though I did not detect, at that time, that that was its source.