On a Christmas Eve in 1911, Kepple passed a hat among the Chronicle's reporters to collect money to buy toys for a shoe-shine boy.
Roddy and his sister Tessa make friends with the ghost of a Victorian shoe-shine boy who is being hunted by the sinister Ghost Hunter.
Although he worked as a shoe-shine boy on campus on weekends, he never thought of applying to that school after some white students chased him off the grounds one day.
Ganolese doesn't have time for shoe-shine boys.
He returned at 17 with a sister, and threw himself into chasing New York rainbows - working as a shoe-shine boy, hat blocker and busboy.
He performed various odd jobs, including bell hop, shoe-shine boy and barber-shop porter.
It is said that he knew it was time to get out of the market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy.
The Ghost Hunter is a general name for a series of novels by Ivan Jones about a Victorian shoe-shine boy who has become a ghost.
After accepting a bribe, Kalishak acts as a shoe-shine boy and tells Boris "Search your sole", which Boris doesn't understand.
Scrooge begins a story of his early life as a shoe-shine boy in Glasgow in 1877.