And, besides, it sounds so natural.

My dad called me 'Bos'n' when I was little." Emily accepted the title complacently.

She was quite contented to be called almost anything, so long as she was permitted to stay with her new friend.

Already the bos'n had taken charge of the deck and the rest of the ship's company; Captain Cy and "Lonesome," the cat, obeyed her orders.
On the second Sunday morning after her arrival "Bos'n" suggested that she and Captain Cy go to church.
"Mother and I always went at home," she said.

"And Auntie Oliver used to say meeting was a good thing for those that needed it." "Think I need it, do you ?" asked the captain, who, in shirt sleeves and slippers, had prepared for a quiet forenoon with his pipe and the Boston Transcript.
"I don't know, sir.