folks-and

Updated: May 14, 2025

Vredenburg the carpenter, who, the neighbors say, has got up in the world, and paints his house to show that he feels above poor folks-and find we have reached the sooty and gin-reeking grocery of Mr. Korner, who sells the devil's elixir to the sootier devils that swarm the cellars of his neighbors.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life