"Mr. St. John's grand, but this 'ere Mr. Derry's folksy.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates
One minute he'll be just as nice and folksy as you could ask anybody to be, and the very next he's looking right through you as if he didn't see you at all, and you wonder and wonder what's the matter, and if you've done anything to displease him.
"Mary Marie"
Eleanor H. Porter
We were on the piazza, Father, Cousin Grace, and I. And I was thinking how perfectly lovely it was that Father was there, and that he was getting to be so nice and folksy, and how I did hope it would last, even after he'd married her, and not have any of that incompatibility stuff come into it.
"Mary Marie"
Eleanor H. Porter