Yesterday morning I rode from this town up the meandering Devon's banks, to pay my respects to some Ayrshire folks at Harvieston.
Should fortune not favour me in farming, as I have no great faith in her fickle ladyship, I have provided myself in another resource, which however some folks may affect to despise it, is still a comfortable shift in the day of misfortune.
I am told you have not seen them these several years, so you can have very little idea of what these young folks are now.
I can no more on the subject--only the medical folks tell me that my last only chance is bathing and country-quarters, and riding.
My compliments to Mrs. Tennant, and all the good folks in Glenconnel and Barquharrie.
Jad, jade; also a familiar term among countryfolks for a giddy young girl.
On the day of their arrival, the little folks were arrayed in their very best, and Edith and Mabel took their dolls, and were seated in the parlor, that they might not get into the least disorder.
The old folks shake their heads at them; but the young men, I notice, overtake them and ride beside them.
Folks with nothing else to do, nursemaids chiefly and errand boys, with now and then a perambulating costermonger added, would gather on the common of a fine morning to watch them pass, and cheer the most deserving.
Old folks stood and gazed at him, the children cheered him.
When he goes off the handle what'll become of the poor ole ladies--the folks hereabouts are er guessin'.
Some folks would say the whole thing was perfectly dreadful, but I don't care so long as you--so long as you don't.
I believe some folks call him the Hog-nosed Snake.
Like a lot of other folks he has yet to wake up to the fact that the only way to keep out of trouble is to be always prepared for trouble.
Folks knew now why Lacey had been so much at Breysgate, Sir John Aspenick learned for whom Oxley Lodge was wanted, and Cartmell understood why he had been forced to disburse that much grudged five hundred pounds for early possession.
Aye, andfolks hate being cheated of a scandal they've made up their minds to.
This is a very large fortune, Mr. Austin--or seems like it to poor folks like the Laceys.
Folks used to say when I was real little, 'Oh, what a lovely child.
While she was feeding the babies, the grown folks went over to their breakfast.
The boss will be down with his folks until then, and all the vallerbles have been sent out of the house so we can leave it alone.
When I was in South Wales your people laughed at my folks and country, so when I meet one of them here I serve him out as I was served out there.
I returned to the subject of Rhys Goch and his chair, and he returned to the subject of Her Majesty’s ministers, and the fine folks of London.
I am the chap what certain folks calls the Romany Rye.
Why, they are hand and glove with the Queen and Prince, and folks say that his wife is going to be made dame of honour, and Jasper Justice of the Peace and Deputy Ranger of Windsor Park.
Moreover, wermod is not bad stuff, and some folks like the taste better than that of hops.
I told him that I cared not a straw about Her Majesty’s ministers and the fine folks of London, and he replied that he cared not a straw for Rhys Goch, his chair, or old women’s stories of any kind.
This road does not go much farther, sir,” said he; “it was made to accommodate grand folkswho live about here.
Folks say winegar ain't nothin' to him, but he seems sweet on Miss Edie, sure 'nuff.
Folks is often more in de way arter dey's dead and gone dan when livin'.
Perhaps so; but the old folks had thrown the day away, and the boys had picked it up, and they worked at it like a swarm of bumble-bees.
But we did not desert, as some folks say we did," added Sandy, who was in favor of putting the best foot forward.
My name is Brown Kipps; but most folks don't take the trouble to call me anything but Kipps, Mr. Deck.
Folks has been all over inter politics, and I couldn't hardly git money enough to pay for the bread and butter of my wife and children; for there wasn't next to no work at all.
When all the world go one way, then folks not like to go another way and be looked at; they be ashamed of Christ's words then, and they only think they do not want to be looked at.
If I was living in a great house, now, I'd have folksenough come to see me.
There are folks who say the forest is haunted," said Little John.
The perfection of the Mother Goose jingles for little folks is in their fulfillment of this principle.
Next morning, where the two had sat They found no trace of dog or cat: And some folks think unto this day That burglars stole that pair away!
The old folks fell on their knees to thank him; but, behold!
Poor Baucis kept wishing that she might starve for a week to come, if it were possible, by so doing, to provide these hungry folks a more plentiful supper.
That clerk might recognize her, and her folks surely called for mail occasionally.
So, Grace, if you will come back with us, and see if your folks will not object, we shall begin our preparations at once.
My folks are cross-eyed looking for me, but all they ever wanted was my pay-envelope, so I should worry about them.
Lots of folks are foolish as that, then they have to spend a good lot to make up for getting a little.
All her folks seem to care for about her is her money.
For a time I fancied she was unhappy with us, but now, since she expects her folks back, I almost have to hold her in from buying new furniture and fancy fixings.
When folks have that much sense you can always talk to them.
Oh, folks who like it knit in their sleep, I guess," replied Tessie, giving the reins to Frank that he might turn safely into the field over the rough little hill at the roadside.
The folks are all coming back and they have promised not to bring any of the old furniture except the brasses.
Also a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and the weakest link in this adventurer's chain was the fact that she had no means of communicating with her own folks or Dagmar, and receiving any reply from them.
We are glad to have you with us, Rose, but with your own folks will be better, when things get all nicely fixed up.
She had left home because she was tired of Milltown and because she thought she would be better able to help her folks by getting out of the factory.
Well, folks must be humored when they're sick," she replied.
I like to do what's best for folks in the end," declared Mrs. Forbes virtuously.
They had reached the door of the child's room; "but some folks can see their duty and do it," she added virtuously.
Well, it looks to me as if there was something those Christian Science folks know that the rest of us don't," he soliloquized.
I only hope there's a purgatory for the folks that use too short check-reins on their horses.
The friend answered, "You Lucerne folks also take the liberty of eating it on the forbidden days.
Oh, the folks that brought you up can have very little sense if they did not tell you that.
Then I shall go to the blessed maidens up on the heath and ask them to set you free--or I will ask them to let me find the blind worm that makes folks invisible.
But the maidens of Burgeis had stayed to pray too--the old folks would go slowly and they could soon overtake them; they would not go away so long as the young priest remained there.
The woman was not to be allowed to return till she had fulfilled her office of nurse to the little dwarf prince, and she lived a year in exile far from her people under the spell of the strange uncanny folks in their realm of ore and earth.
Folks say so because my brows grow together and I have little feet.
God save you, my lord Abbot, I do not think you goodfolks here starve?
Just wait and I will kiss your lips till they are so red that folks will think you tumbled down among the berries," said the lad.
