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"Some folks 'ud say that was a fine beast you druv in yesterday, Bob?"

I daresay he'd think me a hodd talker, as you Loamshire folks allays does hany one as talks the right language."

"Murderer and thief," he cried, "what do you here near honest folks' houses?

"Um do say, sir," says mine host, rising purple-faced, while the moan is still coming out of the Stwun, "as they used in old times to warn the country-side by blawing the Stwun when the enemy was a-comin', and as how folks could make un heered then for seven mile round; leastways, so I've heered Lawyer Smith say, and he knows a smart sight about them old times." We can hardly swallow Lawyer Smith's seven miles; but could the blowing of the stone have been a summons, a sort of sending the fiery cross round the neighbourhood in the old times?

Well, here is "more about Dorothy," and about our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and Ozma, and all the rest of them; and here, likewise, is a good deal about some new folks that are queer and unusual.

He was one of these broken-down Eton or 'Arrer fellers, folks said.

"If it come to that." said one of the foresters, "the tough meat of them will wear folks teeth out, and there is a trade for the man who can draw them."

When Persis Leigh stepped onto the old wharf John Selwyn took her in his arms--and folks stopped cheering and begun to cry.

I'm glad you did your part--some folks don't, you know.

"My folks lived in America a long time," Billy said slowly, digesting the information she had given and relating himself to it.

These were the drinking-places of the Folk that lived in the caves.

"Those are Mary's 'God's folk,'" said Prince Andrew.