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Lad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1440, OED Evaluation: N/A

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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And he was a great lad to invent things. He took me in, showed me some of the mistakes I was doing.
Boy
And put them out and the old lad that owned it was there with a car. And he herded them cows there with the car, away from these other ones 'til I got the twelve of them out. And then we took them and we round them into town and went to the butcher shop.
Boy
And then Johnny- there's- there was four bachelors lived right near us you-see. There was two Calendar lads up there, and Chester-Boyce, and Cardigans and Terry. Right there in a bunch.
Boy
But a lot of young lads get- you-know I-guess they're used to doing that at home. (laughs) Wouldn't do this, wouldn't do that.
Boy
Cause the lad I was working for told me, he said "If you go up the top of them, there's a little cactus berry up there." And he says "I like to eat them," he says, "I bet you would too."
Boy
Great lad to travel around, walk here and there on Sundays and what not so I get out and get onto these things and pick the berries. But I was in Alberta and up there, there was right down the badlands you-know.
Boy
How come his father didn't show him these things? You-know, young lad, he was willing to learn.
Boy
I had- no, I had lads work when they still- there's a- I had some really fine fellows. You-know Carleton-Auto, eh? C-- ah, Chris-Evans, the lad that run it- own it, he started out working with me.
Boy
I was a young lad, our bush- our- like for our old house wasn't- then our- i-- it was about- cross maybe twenty acres to go back to the camp there. And I was a young lad, and I'd taken a lunch back I-think to Dad. I wasn't very big then.
Boy
Just about, twenty years. And ah, there was a bunch of young lads come in there from high-school one time with their teacher. And they come in and they want to use the washroom, which is fine, good.
Boy
Oh well I- some of them went- I still ke-- I had a g-- four of five lads out there an I tell you what, they done the work of fifteen people. And they all liked doing it too you-know.
Boy
Oh yeah, Lester was a good young lad.
Boy
See years ago, when I was a young lad, there wasn't the coyot-- there was no coyotes. Once in a while in the wintertime these ah, timberwolves and-that would come across from Quebec
Boy
Speaker 1: But nobody would show the young lads. They're afraid of s-- getting to know some- Speaker 2: But you do, Neil. You're good with them. Speaker 1: Yeah. So I- I- I kind-of- at night down there, them young lads would come in they'd get around and they'd want to know how to do this.
Boy
Speaker: 'Cause I was a young lad, we always had bulls you-know and some of them were cross. And- Interviewer: Did you ever get into trouble with a bull? Speaker: Well yeah, they used to chase me the sometimes.
Boy
Speaker: Dad was milking, we had to make sure that we had a pile of turnips to feed the cows when he was done. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: There was lots of work for young lads, them days.
Boy
Speaker: Good thing, another thing I liked to do was show young lads how to do things. Interviewer: Oh yeah- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Tell me about that. Speaker: Well a lot of people won't show anybody anything you-know. And down at Stittsville there after I got- learned how to do things- in fact, I kind-of resented you-know and I started running the show.
Boy
This yard was clean when yous come in, clean it up now." The teacher said "Yes," she said "You can't do that. Pick it up. The garbage can there, pick it up, clean it." And there were two young lads who wouldn't. Well the teacher said to some of the other lads, "Go over and clean them up." They wouldn't do that.
Boy
Truck wasn't just going, something, so I'd try and help them out. So I liked doing that. And then, when I got to be foreman and-that, I had lots of young lads working for me too. Some young lads- and this kind-of- I resented this, in a way, is that you-know we'd hire lads there- older men, you-know, and- and they knew how to work. And I had to pay them the same amount of money them young lads, as what I did that person who knew how to do stuff. A young lad come in there, and he couldn't use a (inc) shovel.
Boy
We didn't have tractors and-that, we had a lot of hard work to do- you-know it was worth horses and-that. But everybody worked at it. You- you-know? And I-don't-know, I went to school with a pile of lads, I wasn't old enough to go overs-- to go into the army but I went to school with a pile of guys and they're just long gone.
Boy