Possible Clues:

• Annoying little boy
• Old city feature may be seen in the gutter
• Street child
• Old city church favoured mischievous child
• Boy that's scruffy and prickly
• Roguish child - especially one raggedly dressed
• Scamp
• Dour Chinese boxing kid on street
• A ragged child may be an old city feature
• Little rascal