"In the morning we boys would come out and collect missile tails," he said.
The boys are collecting it now and they know that I'll have the fingers of any man trying to steal.
The boy jumped down from his ladder and collected his tools.
A small boy outside the bank had been collecting car registration (licence plate) numbers, a common hobby at the time.
Back at camp, we gathered our belongings while the boys collected eagle feathers for good luck.
This way, the boys might collect a dollar or two or possibly more.
Taylor's father is a gamekeeper, and the boy collects eggs.
That happened last year, when a boy, with his mother's help, contacted his state representative and collected 200 signatures.
There's no harm in trying the boy could collect him when he's better.
These would disappear by evening, the boys having collected them, for this was the 'boys' house'.