"But I've had two boys myself, and it seems to me that a boy like that, who didn't eat and didn't get into mischief, and did his work, would be the handiest kind of boy to have about the place.

Tiny Boy, The Boy, and Orange Boy are his best, and all three are approved sires.

She had him dressed in girls' clothes at an age when most boys are violent destroyers of clothing.

The boys is gittin' kind o' riled, fur they allow the game ain't on the square wuth a cent.

I do not know how to tell you, sir,My poor boy, my Leonard, the pride of my life, has been three weeks in the county jail.

After all, his boys may be admirals if they behave themselves;" and he went to seek his daughter, having in imagination manned her nursery with vice and rear admirals in embryo by the half dozen.

"He says the boys are talkin' mighty strong.

At times when they remained in Culebra Cut, which they did for two weeks, instead of one, fresh unexposed films were received from New York, being brought along the Canal by Government boats, for, as I have explained, the boys were semi-official characters now.

" "Oh, but very certainly this big squinting boy is the most unloquacious and the most stubborn brute that ever lived!"

Boys is wery obstinite and wery lazy, gen'l'men, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down with a run.

Down at the liver'-stable the boys were talkin' about Siner goin' to git married, an' dern if old man Renfrew didn't git cut up about it!"

I am not a coward, but a boy with a gun is a terror to me.

No boy that ever lived was gamer than the little tan-faced cub.

Mrs. Wood whispered to Miss Laura that this boy was the president of the band, and the young man with the pale face and curly hair who sat in front of him was Mr. Maxwell, the artist's son, who had formed this Band of Mercy.

Telling her husband of it in the evening, Miranda Conwell said, half jokingly, "our boy will some day be a great preacher."

A poor lame boy became a Christian, and in telling what effect this change had upon him, these are the words he used to a person who was visiting him: "Once every thing went wrong at our house; father was wrong, mother was wrong, sister was wrong, and I was wrong; but now, since I have learned to know and love Jesus it is all right.

The Hamilton boys were no doubt as extravagant and thriftless as they were insane, but the Careys sympathized with their extravagance and thriftlessness and insanity so heartily, in this particular, that they could hardly conceal their real feelings from Bill Harmon.

So he returned once more and gave in an irresistibly rollicking way a song in Yankee dialect, the refrain to which, "Oh, my boy Jonathan is jest as good as gold!

To your kind a boy is a handicap, while to our class a good-looking boy is a most decided asset as a boy to us means a heavy increase of our incomes and of our comforts, and now you tell me that you are anxious to find jobs for these lads whom I could easily train into first-class Road Kids."

Or (for vividness) this, from Antony and Cleopatra, when Cleopatra cries out and faints over Antony's body: O! withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon ... "Madam!

The two boys, John and Henry, were at the time thirteen and eleven years old respectively.

"The boy is a mere hanger-on.

"Yes," she said, "the boy was a very, very dear boy, and I want the man to be equally brave andsensible.

Thus, if I say, "A spreading oak," spreading is an adjective relating to oak; if, "A boy spreading hay," spreading is a participle, governing hay, and relating to boy, because the boy is the agent of the action.

Nevertheless I tell you that boy is the danger in Chiltistan.