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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...as I told you, some of the lads I hunted with s-- about four of them are gone. Five of them are gone. |
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And at home, of course where they're training them, some of them- and I've seen them in the stables, a-- a-- a lad had two- four horses were drawn and he'd the legs all wrapped because they're swelling up. |
Boy |
And I never lost cows although some of n-- neighbours- I know one lad he- well the cow had her calf out behind the barn and some brush, and the coyote come and killed it and eat some of it. |
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But if I wounded one, or the lads wounded one and we couldn't find it, it was a real concern... |
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I-mean you always have to hunt with a group of people. <004> Well no I hunted ah some myself if the other lads weren't out. Ah, you don't have to hunt with a gang. You can hunt alone. |
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On Friday, the lads were hunting on my farm. So I go out behind the barn and a doe and a fawn come up through (laughs) and ah the fawn stopped in the lane so it was a patent fence so I shot it through the second and third rail. |
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To where the deer might go and a couple of lads go through the bush maybe with a dog or two and when the deer comes out, you shoot it if you can. |
Boy |
But it wasn't a wild calf and we knew that when we loaded it. So I landed at the sale barn and there was a lad there that bought animals that weren't that well so I talked to him if he'd be interested. |
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I-- it was really not well but this lad that bought those things was a vet and he bought a lot of animals that weren't that well and would take them home and get them healthy again. |
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Well now they have a pipeline although I know one lad that still uses horses and another lad uses a tractor |
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Dad had the car and he'd drive that old vet all over. Here to Minden, Wilberforce, wherever eh? Then he- old lad got killed then dad did it all. I've been with him thousands of barns around here when I was a kid. |
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He was so excited over that, he went and bought the twenty-sixer for the young lad for everybody to have a drink that night. Nobody got drunk, just a drink. Word was, you got drunk, you didn't go. |
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I got an incubator, I've had that for twenty years I-guess. I brought them up here and the old lad, he put them in the incubator. Of course the granddaughter was here, she looked after all these eggs eh? And she hatched three turkeys. |
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In come the deer eh? At night, the old Chuckey (inc) supper that night 'cause the young lad was only sixteen years old. He went to the liquor store and bought twenty-six (inc). |
Boy |
Now tell her the story on the turkey. You don't have to let it go any further. The young lad, my son, he lives in Woodville and he's got horses and he was down here cutting the hay. |
Boy |
Oh yeah. Yeah I know a lad down here, his last name was Spence. |
Boy |
So we went to go down. Anyways dad went to reach up in the cow and couldn't get in him. So we told the guy, he was a German lad. He said, "Your calf is turned over in the cow, she'll never ever have it." |
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The young lad- he was so excited, oh the young lad shooting that deer eh? That big deer. |
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They, my oldest lad he knows what farm work is. |
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And this old lad died here. Chuckey-Wilt. We called him one-shot-chucky. |
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