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The driver drew in the horses with an imprecation. Arch picked himself up, and stood recovering his scattered senses, leaning against a lamp-post. "Served ye right!" said the coachman roughly. "You'd no business to be running befront of folkses carriages." "Stop!" said a clear voice inside the coach. "What has occurred, Peter?" "Only a ragged boy knocked down; but he's up again all right.
"Why, jes' what I said," he muttered, defensively. "Folkses here either eats in or dey eats out. Ef dey eats in, dey has stuff sent in rolls an' eggs an' milk and' stuff like dat. Ef dey eats out, dey goes out, reg'lar, to meals. But Miss Mayo she don' seem to eat in or out. Nothin' comes in, an' she don' go out 'nough to eat reg'lar.
Hurrah for a holiday and a fine new house for Neighbor Field-Mouse! Come, Granny, we're homeward bound. Fetch the automobile, Limpy-toes. I hope the twistity will not give out. Good-night, folkses, goodnight!" Neighbour Field-Mouse's new bungalow was begun before sunrise next morning. Squire Cricket and Daddy Grasshopper brought their saws, Jack Rabbit and Mr.
Zekle White had made brave progress from the chair by the door to the other rocker, drawn closely beside that of Mandy Calline; and he was saying, in tones that suggested an effort: "I've seed other young ladies which may be better-lookin' in other folkses' eyes, 'n' they may be more suiterbler ter marry, but not fer me.
Culver said, "Just you wait, folkses; this will be fun to remember some day." And Mrs. Culver called it "our school" and told Helen that they must both strive to know the best and easiest way of doing everything while they had to do all for themselves.
Some times other folkses tries t' stick their noses in, but they'uns git sot down upon." "What'd he pay the preacher?" asked Shorty. "Why, mam gin his wife a hank o' fine stockin' yarn, an' dad gin him a couple sides o' bacon." "At present prices o' pork in Injianny," remarked Si, after a little mental figuring, "that wasn't such a bad fee."
Good-by, folkses," said he, waving his hat to his late traveling companions. "I'se mighty sorry to leave yer, but biz is biz, yer know, an' I'se got a job. Wish yer good luck, all on yer. Jes let 'em know I'm on der way, will yer? Ef yo' gits dar afo' I do, Jes tell 'em I'se a-comin' too,"
"'Pears like ha'nts must have dere jokes like odder folkses," was as far as Solomon would go. At breakfast I repeated what I had seen the night before, and to my indignation both Radnor and my uncle took it calmly. "Mose is only a poor half witted fellow but he's as honest as the day," the Colonel declared, "and I won't have him turned into a villain for your entertainment."
"An' Ah ain' afraid o' yo' doin' that," he continued to himself, as he turned into the side road that led to his cabin. "You-all's had enough o' them folkses; an' you ain' that kind, either." Von Rittenheim Collects his Rent It was in the cool of the next day's afternoon that von Rittenheim, with 'Gene Frady, who was working for him, drove up to the field where was piled his rent corn.
Eunice has raised six seven of her folkses' childern, an' I 'lowed she'd got done; but there ain't no accountin' for silly women silly women. Get out, there, you! Strange that a body can't leave a gate open a single minute here in Marsden village, without somebody's stray cattle trespassin'. Get out, I say!"
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