urchin

noun, a pert, mischievous, or roguish youngster; a brat (“urchin, n.” OED)

“I can remember when we were kids, we’d all gather on our bicycles, eh, and then the boys’d have a few firecrackers or that, and they’d be out on the road. And then Dr. Smith’d come out and try and put the run on us, eh … We were just these little urchins from the rural area, you know, and of course the more he’d try and put the run on the boys, well the worse it got.”