Kid (A). A faggot or bundle of firewood. To kid is to bind up faggots. In the parish register of Kneelsal
church there is the following item: “Leading kids to church, 2s. 6d.,” that is, carting faggots to church.
(Welsh, cidys, faggots.)

Kid (A). A young child. A facetious formation from the Anglo-Saxon ci[l]d, a child. The l is often silent,
as in calm, half, golf, etc. At one time fault was pronounced fau't.

Notice Brewer says the "l" in golf is silent.