Crossword-Solution: YOKELS 6 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Hempseed and most of the yokels and fisher-folk had gone to make way for “the quality,” and to finish smoking their pipes elsewhere.

And with one comprehensive curse I close my brief narration, And advertise it in my verse -- 'For Sale! A Mountain Station.' Been There Before There came a stranger to Walgett town, To Walgett town when the sun was low, And he carried a thirst that was worth a crown, Yet how to quench it he did not know; But he thought he might take those yokels down, The guileless yokels of Walgett town.

The yokels laughed at his hopes o'erthrown, And he stood awhile like a man in a dream; Then out of his pocket he fetched a stone, And pelted it over the silent stream -- He had been there before: he had wandered down On a previous visit to Walgett town.

The sunburnt stranger was gaunt and brown, But it soon appeared that he meant to flout The iron law of the country town, Which is -- that the stranger has got to shout: 'If he will not shout we must take him down,' Remarked the yokels of Walgett Town.

Where’s _Magna Charta_, else?’ ‘We will see about that,’ says he; and then, addressing the assistants, ‘where does the constable live?’ ‘Lord love you, sir!’ cried the landlord, ‘what are you thinking of? The constable at past ten at night! Why, he’s abed and asleep, and good and drunk two hours agone!’ ‘Ah that a’ be!’ came in chorus from the yokels.