If Garrison weren't down an' out I'd be ready to tyke my Alfred David it were 'is bloomin' self.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
He needed nae howling o' the moon-baying tyke, nae' death-watch, nae whip-lash on the table, nae dead-drap, nae dead-shaving at the candle, nae coffin-spark frae the fire, nae powers o second-sight, dreams, or divinations, to tell him when he was to hae a guid job.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Dennis was ten and Anita was eight when Larry became one of the family in 1942. And then when he was six weeks old, the little tyke almost left us for good.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar