As in the Lowlands, they are also referred to as "guid fowk" and "guid neighbours.

Could it even a bin the fashion for grit fowk to wear their fingernails so?

And as the boy was never seen more, in course of time the thing died out of fowks' minds.

All she would answer was, "Weel, weel, some fowk like parritch and some like paddocks.

He was a fine tall youth, upwards of six feet high, and by way of making some grateful recognition for his late polite attention, she eyed him from head to foot, and as she was of the opinion of the old Scotch lady who declared she "aye liked bonny fowk," she viewed her young friend with much satisfaction, but which she only evinced by the quaint remark, "Od, ye're a lang lad; God gie ye grace.

"Ou," said he (in reference to the operatic singers and the corps de ballet), "he just keeps a curn o' quainies and a wheen widdyfous, and gars them fissle, and loup, and mak murgeons[80], to please the great fowk.

He led her to the churchyard, and pointing with his finger, got out, "My fowk lie there, Mary; wad ye like to lie there?"

On being asked, as a gentle hint of their possibly needless length, if he did not feel tired after preaching so long, he replied, "Na, na, I'm no tired;" adding, however, with much naïveté, "But, Lord, how tired the fowk whiles are.

'Some fowk like parritch, and some like paddocks.'