boy-companion

The children learned the Indian tongue, and when Pierrepont Edwards was established at New Haven, the old sachems used to visit the boy-companion of their early days, when the pipe of peace was smoked in his kitchen in ancient form.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

A sudden memory crossed his mind of the first day that he had seen them together, -- the day that he had brought the child and her boy-companion -- two estrays from an emigrant train on the plains -- to his wife in camp.

Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869

Her mother held her back a good deal, no doubt; but her father seemed more like a boy-companion than anything else, and if Corny hadn't been a very smart girl, she would have been a pretty bad kind of a girl by this time.

A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868

You know I haven't had a boy-companion for a long time -- as a schoolmate, I mean.

The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket Martha Finley 1868

The boy-companion was following more slowly, when his eye caught mine.

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838