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smallboy

British  
/ ˈsmɔːlˌbɔɪ /

noun

  1. the steward's assistant or deputy steward in European households in W Africa

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Doctor Smallboy's gardener had bought it for the purpose of raising the stump of an old elm-tree, and had left it for a moment on the grass while he had returned to the house for more brown paper.

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