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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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We got- I hunt wolves in the winter with the lads. We go hunting up in Meadowvale. Year before last, we got forty-eight.
Boy
We liked her, she was good, but she ah, gave us a strapping every day, Ross-McTavish and I. Just to- I-think it was to cow the young lads and the rest.
Boy
Well yeah, he taught me lots of good stories like that. Remember one time Dad and I- and I was just a young lad. We were working out near the eighth lane and of-course our farm, you could see over to his.
Boy
Well you talk about working on the farm, and this happened to all farming lads at the time. I-- y-- you-know, we had two hired man at home before when the war broke out, we mostly kept two coup-- we kept one all the time anyhow, maybe a couple.
Boy
Yeah f-- three-thirty. So she said that they could go ahead 'cause you-know they're young lads, they're immune to it, so. She's giving us a lecture and she (inc) way out.
Boy
Yeah that's right too. It all evened out. That's what I always told the lads out here. See I'd tell them, you-know s-- to do something because they'd done something.
Boy
Yeah. And herd them with a tractor too. Well I used to have a- I was out in Alberta when I was a young lad, we used to go to these harvest excursions, you-know?
Boy
Yeah. And I was the oldest lad. And then my o-- bur-- brother Barney, he w-- done quite a bit of work. Worked- but the two young lads, they got away with murder.
Boy
Yeah. I was over there as a young lad. He- he was putting in grain or-something and he stick his hand up and he said "Would you do something for me?" And I said "Sure." He said "Go into the house there and the teapot is on the stove, bring it out."
Boy
Speaker: We were bringing a bridge at Cobdon. He come as a young lad and he worked with me. And he was as good- he was a really good lad. Them good lads always went places. And I had lots of them lads. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Yeah. Really good lads.
Boy
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And ah, so this guy said, oh my God, he said, and there's a good book available on this here, too. He said, "I can get you lots of young lads in Italy. All you got to do is pay their passage and teach them how to cut wood".
Boy
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I can remember one time that was. I forget who come. Ah, Ed-Linden come, an old lad from over in Blairhampton come and helped us with that time. And a cow having a calf and the calf didn't come right and- and we went and got the old fellow with h horse and sleighs and brought him over here and he helped get that calf born.
Boy
Interviewer: Who's Harold? Speaker: Harold, he's a little lad that works for me.
Boy
Oh golly, yeah. That was something. I remember dad when we're young lads, young ah- he used to take us to the Casino, that was a big theatre in Toronto.
Boy
Oh gosh yeah. Yeah that's- yeah we up- young lads that ah, help and whoever helps more gets to taste the syrup.
Boy
Oh yeah, yeah we log in the winter. I cut seventy-five (inc) of wood and the lad that works for me drive my truck. He come and (inc) for me, just in the mornings he'd fill and then I'd skid them out and get them cut up and split and- our woods sheds are right full.
Boy
Yeah we did, we did, we really did. I remember night as a young lad and-that mum said "You better get a fish" and so down to the lake I went and I come back with two trout. One was four and one was five pounds.
Boy
And one old lad would sit there and keep turning the drill and this fellow would keep hitting it.
Boy
Five or six years. We kept the house heated and water on and-everything for the two old lads.
Boy
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Yeah, but anyway, um, th-- um, Ian-Hamilton came and it was his first school and he was a big lad and he was tall and you-know lots of muscle and-everything, you-know? And of course, the first day of school, usually the other teachers let you come 'til noon hour, and then you had the rest of the day off, but Ian didn't.
Boy