And when he was mellow with it, boys o' boys, but he could discourse!

Finally the alarm clock quit jingling, and they caught the seal and pulled the clock off his tooth, and just then pa came up to me and said: "What deviltry you boys up to now?

I'll bet my hoss agin a chaw of terbacker that them boys hain't heerd a shot we've fired, an' dunno we're within five miles on 'em.

"Hm! boys an' men, ye 're all alike,all for looks," said the cook, who was a lean and ill-favored spinster, at least fifty years old.

Jack got us boys pardners for every dance.

Four months alone I walked the chalk, I thought my heart would break; And all them boys a-slappin' my back And axin', "What'll you take?" I never slep' without dreamin' dreams Of Burbin, Peach, or Rye, But I chawed at my niggerhead and swore

Like their sports, which follow laws of their own, uninfluenced by meteorological considerations, tending to the sedentary games of marbles in the cold, chilly spring, and bursting into base-and foot-ball in the midsummer solstice, strict tradition hands down from boy to boy the well-worn talk.

Sometimes these pedlers are grown-up men, but generally boys about twelve or fourteen years of age.