Laddie's ostensible greediness is most likely the result of his family's poverty.
We have got all night right now, laddie.
I am pleased to see that the lasses have, indeed, in this instance at least, done better than the laddies.
There are bound to be difficulties, conflicts and tensions, and to say otherwise would only be to act the daft laddie.
My next question might be in the way of a "daft laddie" question.
I shall ask them to see what they can do on an ex gratia basis to help this wee laddie to make his path through life easier.
That progress will continue because we get the bright ideas from the laddies who work at the pit point on the coal face and in the distribution sector.
Laddie reaches the prisoner-of-war camp where his master had been taken.