Related Clues:

• Mischievous child and companion in old city home
• Spiny creature in a tide pool
• Child; sea creature
• Ragamuffin staggering out of bounds
• Victor Hugo's Cosette, e.g
• Many an informant employed by Sherlock Holmes
• Poor raggedly dressed city child
• Spiky little one plays mischievously on the streets.
• Thin, unhealthy-looking sort
• Urchin, perhaps
• Poor child's letter from abroad found in container
• Almost hold on to fine stray
• Ragamuffin church invited inside
• Young raggedly dressed mischievous child
• Twist, in Dickens literature