Possible Clues:

• Wretched child, one who disembowels bird?
• Urchin, for example, raised to pocket absolute bargain
• Nearly go out with bird, a young one from poor area
• Urchin
• Person behaving as one brought up in squalor
• Scruffy street child
• Neglected child, say, returning to snatch absolute bargain
• Dirty little thing, wader in the Channel?
• Street urchin to start to go out with bird
• Instinctive bite into snappy urchin