A boot-black mustn't use good grammar

"Aboot-black mustn't use good grammar, and a newsboy must swear alittle, orrubberwaterproof bootshe wouldn't be natural," explained Geordie, both boys ready tofight gallantly for their favourites.
"Butmy sons are neither boot-blacks nor newsboys, and I object to hearingthem use such words as 'screamer,' 'bully,' andredwing boot retailers 'buster.'In fact, I fail to see the advantage of writing books about suchpeople unless it is done in a very different way. I cannot think theywill help to refine the ragamuffins if they read them, and I'm surethey can do no good to the better class of boys, who through thesebooks are introduced to police courts, counterfeiters dens,gamblingminibootshouses, drinking saloons, and all sorts of low life."
"Someof them are about first-rate boys, mother; and they go to sea andstudy, and sail round the world, having great larks all the way."
"Ihave read about them, Geordie, andcrochetboot though they are better than the others, I am not satisfied with theseoptical delusions, as I call them. Now, I put it to you, boys, is itnatural for lads from fifteen to eighteen to command ships, defeatpirates, outwit smugglers, and so cover themselves with glory, thatAdmiral Farragut invites them to dinner, saying, 'Noble boy, you areanrockyboothonour to your country!' Or, if the hero is in the army, he hashair-breadth escapes and adventures enough in one small volume toturn his hair white, and in the end he goes to Washington at theexpress desire of the President or Commander-in-chief to be promotedto no end of stars and bars. Even if the hero is merely an honest boytrying to get hiswomenblack bootliving, he is not permitted to do so in a natural way, by hard workand years of patient effort, but is suddenly adopted by a millionairewhose pocket-book he has returned; or a rich uncle appears from seajust in the nick of time; or the remarkable boy earns a few dollars,speculates in pea-nuts or neckties, and grows rich so rapidly thatSinbad intheboy and the bootthe diamond valley is a pauper compared to him. Isn't it so, boys?"
"Well,the fellows in these books are mighty lucky, and very smart, I mustsay," answered Will, surveying an illustration on the open pagebefore him, where a small but virtuous youth is upsetting atipsyjordanshosegiant in a bar-room, and under it the elegant inscription, "DickDauntless punches the head of Sam Soaker."
"Itgives boys such wrong ideas of life and business; shows them so muchevil and vulgarity that they need not know about, andtallhunting bootsmakes the one success worth having a fortune, a lord's daughter, orsome worldly honour, often not worth the time it takes to win. Itdoes seem to me that some one might write stories that should belively, natural and helpful tales in which the English should begood, the morals pure, and the characters such as we can love inspite of theskechersmen's bootsfaults that all may have. I can't bear to see such crowds of eagerlittle fellows at the libraries reading such trash; weak, when it isnot wicked, and totally unfit to feed the hungry minds that feast onit for want of something better. There! my lecture is done; now Ishould like to hear what you gentlemen have to say," and AuntJessie subsided withcomfortablewaterproof bootsa pretty flush on the face that was full of motherly anxiety for herboys.
"TomBrown just suits mother, and me too, so I wish Mr. Hughes would writeanother story as good," said Archie.