youngfolks

How perfect is her description of the gipsy-party on the village common; and of the broad shady oak in Mansfield Park, under which the youngfolks used to loiter away the Summer evening, till the approach of the thrifty and prolix Mrs. Norris, who was much addicted to unseasonable lecturing, would compel them to a precipitate departure!

1838 October, “Literary Review”, in The Ladies’ Companion, New York, N.Y., page 300, column 1

Frequently the youngfolks of several families would join and come down in a wagon, drawn by a four-horse team, and stay all night at our house, and would seem to make the time pass very pleasantly.

1872, Joshua Antrim, The History of Champaign and Logan Counties, from Their First Settlement, Bellefontaine, Oh.: Press Printing Co., page 352

Misses Ida Sympson, Maggie Sambrook and Master Archie Cooper and a number of youngfolks, spent Thursday, at Lettered Rock.

1902 July 4, “Livingston”, in Mount Vernon Signal, volume XV, number 41, Mount Vernon, Ky., page [3], column 3

Tap received his degree by his noble work as editor of the Youngfolks’ Corner of the Weekly.

1915, “Bachelor’s Club”, in The Cardinal, Fayetteville, Ark.: […] The Junior Class [University of Arkansas]

Don’t deny the youngfolks the many tales that are written for them in book-form to stir their imagination for the bigger and better things in life.

1923 December 8, “Books for the Home”, in The Michigan Business Farmer, volume XI, number 8, Mount Clemens, Mich.: The Rural Publishing Company, Inc., page 14 (206), column 3