b'ys

"Let it be one of the b'ys!" cried Sullivan, a Tarbert man, glancing at the same time significantly at O'Brien.

THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

Let the lots be drawn between all of us, men and b'ys.

THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

"'Tis not me duty, the killin 'of b'ys," Gorman protested irresolutely.

THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

When the poor soul was took off, suddent, his fam'ly had to help theirselves in the world, and this one, bein 'the youngest, and enjying terrible poor health, ain't fit for nothin' but teachin 'b'ys.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

'They two dogs, they be summat like a couple o' wild b'ys; they keeps the passon and the mistress in, not for to say hot water, but bilin 'water, for the livelong day!' constantly declared Binks, who was the handy-man at the Vicarage, and, in fact, handy-man at the little church as well, he being both factotum and sexton.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

But b'ys is a handful, Miss Theedory, as nobody should know better than yourself.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

And he will do it by you and the b'ys, don't 'ee fear!'

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

"'Tis a bit snug, ma'am," Mrs. O'Callaghan had said when piloting her to this seat, "but it's my belafe my b'ys don't moind the snugness of it so much as they would if they was girls."

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

'You be a plaguey pair, you b'ys!' was the unfailing greeting of Binks, when he encountered Geoff and Alick Carnegy.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

Time may come as you'll be tramping every day, wet or dry, to teach ongrateful, onruly b'ys according to their station. '

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell