A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad
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Like when I was growing up you mean? Oh yes. At that time, they- the laws wasn't as big as now but I remember when I was a young lad just say seventy years ago, some old lad would shoot a deer and everyone in the country'd get a little piece, because they had no refrigerators and so- and everybody help each other, eh? |
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No me either, unless a young lad was coming to my place with one and I'd borrow it for- to run around and fall off it and... |
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Nope, not that I know of. There was one young lad, a cripple, that lived in Martin-River. He got hurt out west and he lived there for a while, maybe that's- yeah there was a Reichert there. But he's moved back to Powassan. |
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And we ah we went- we found a couple of weeks ago, a lady who had a s-- home-schooled her children until I guess, by the look of the young lad, I say he might have been nine or-something-like-that. And they were- she was going to put them in the public school system and she was going back to school herself. |
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So that, and ah my brother getting mumps coming across the border and having, you-know- he's trying to be the- the nice guy. Ah my stepfather jumped out and warned the border agents. Said, "Hey, (inc) young lad that has mumps. |
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Interviewer: So when he was small he didn't give you any trouble, eh? Speaker: No no he was a very good little fellow, he was really good. Good in school too. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: Good la-- lad yeah. |
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Speaker: So he might be home this weekend. But he's a nice fellow. Big boy too, six-feet-tall, big- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Two-hundred-and-twenty-pounds. Very agile. Nice lads. (inc) Picture's right there. Right there, that picture there. |
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Yeah, old Miriam-Owal. God, yes. Yeah. You don’t see them anymore. And there was another crippled lad. Jim-Catch, they called him. Ah, Polish. During the hungry thirties. He ah, sold papers and he'd stand on Moore's-Corner there and I still remember as a kid. |
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They're a very prominent outfit in Kirkland-Lake. So he went in there, he started the machine job at s- for six-years and one day, one of the lads quit in the ah um, ah what do you call it, drafting-room. Ah, for- give one-week's notice, so they said, "Donny, do you-know anything about drafting?" So they brought him in, so he was there forty-two-years. |
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Yes, we're pretty happy about that and then the other lad, he works at a local ah, grocery-store. |
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Baby-sat my grandchildren. Some of them- one lad he's in the s-- starting, I think he's close to forty years old now. And his sister's in her thirties and then I had Ronny-Patterson, which is got to be in his thirties and is- or close to thirty and Tania-Patterson that's twenty something and so I- I g-- I baby-sat them when they were younger. |
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Speaker: Well there was one lad in my eh- day and age. He used to come and start the fire. Interviewer 1: Mm-hm. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah, there was always somebody that was available. Now for a few years, I used to do the cleaning at the school... |
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The- the young lad- he worked for a steel company there in Whitby and they wanted grade twelve to sweep the floor. Like my boss here, young Dylan-Arthur- he- they wanted grade twelve to work in- deliver milk and the boss didn't have grade twelve. |
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Ah- ah I often think we should go down to see the young lad and maybe go into Toronto look around for a vehicle. Either that or ah toying with the idea of maybe pick up a used one here. Two nine or two ten. |
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But the young lad here- he works in Elk-Lake but his boss- they sent him to Cochrane- down as far as Montreal to work. He has all the heavy equipment at- in the sawmills here. |
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He's a good lad but I mean- his dad's in the home up there too at Standard-Care. |
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No. But eve-- he might even be able to get on- on the construction end of it. 'Cause you don't want a young lad. He's only early twenties. |
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Oh yeah. Yeah we- we go down every once in a while. We haven't went down to see the young lad for a little while. He works on the computer down there. He has his own house and everything. He's- he's still single. |
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Th-- they all went to college. The young lad- he went to trade school for mechanic. He's a-- he works in Elk-Lake. |
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Like, if one guy basically all he did all summer was cut hay and the other lad basically all he did all summer was draw the hay in the bale. You-know, so it was- but again, I had two g-- great guys to work with me. |
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