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Chapter 1

• Two groups of boys, the Devil's Row boys and the Rum Alley boys, are fighting in a vacant lot.

• When the rest of the Rum Alley boys run away, Jimmie faces the Devil's Row boys alone.

• An older boy, Pete, breaks up the fight and scares off the Devil's Row boys.
• Blue Billie brags about his performance in the fight.

• Jimmie challenges Blue Billie to a fight to prove who is really the toughest.

• Jimmie's father comes along and violently breaks up the fight between Jimmie and Blue Billie.

Chapter 2

• Maggie drags her little brother Tommie up the street and meets Jimmie and Fader heading home.

• Maggie and Jimmie fight over Jimmie's street brawl.

• Mudder punishes Jimmie's misdeeds by scouring his face roughly with a dirty rag.
• Mudder and Fader argue, and Fader leaves the apartment to get a drink.

• Mudder mourns her sad life as she...

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