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At any rate he did not mean to make the mistake of being too cordial with these young representatives of the snap-shot art. "Is there any business around here?" asked Jack, after awhile. "Oh, there's a Main Street, back uptown, that has some real pretty homes," admitted the hotel keeper, "an' some likely-lookin' cross streets.
"Now, take it like I was wearin' a hard-boiled hat and a collar and buttin shoes, like the rest of them sports. Why, that wouldn't ketch the eye of some likely-lookin' lady wantin' to get married. Nix!
I ast him if they knowed who I was, an' he said one on 'em ast him, an' he told him. The feller said to him, seein' me drive up: 'That's a putty likely-lookin' hoss. Who's drivin' him? An' he says to the feller: 'That's Dave Harum, f'm over to Homeville. He's a great feller fer hosses, he says." "Dave," said Mrs. Bixbee, "them chaps jest laid fer ye, didn't they?"
But he shall have his home if he is honest, without swimming across the ocean to find it." "Wall, now, that's fair enough fer anybody. Hey, Mary! Come on out and git acquainted with yer neighbor's girl. Likely-lookin' young woman," he passed judgment, nodding towards Teresita. "Skittish, mebby young blood most gen'rally is, when there's any ginger in it. What's yer name, mister?
He stared coldly, resentfully, at Gray, mumbled an unintelligible greeting, then rudely turned his back upon the visitor and joined his father. The elder Briskow spoke first, and it was evident that he feared to betray lack of conservatism, for he said, with admirable restraint: "Likely-lookin' lot of trinkets, eh, Bud?" Bud grunted.
A rude cabin with a red-stone chimney and clay-chinked cracks between the logs, stuffed to bursting with furs and pelts and horns and traps, marked the home of the trapper. "Wal, we're hyar," sung out Slingerland, and in the cheery tones there was something which told that the place was indeed home to him. "Shore is a likely-lookin' camp," drawled Red, throwing his bridle.
"Well, in due time I forget the exact date, now we arrived on the Coast, and there we stayed for a matter o' three months, huntin' blacks and Portingals; goin' into the rivers in the caravels, landin' parties, attackin' native villages, and makin' prisoners o' all the strongest and most likely-lookin' men and women with a good sprinklin' o' childer, too and cuttin' out the Portingal caravels wherever we found 'em.
"You're a likely-lookin' fellow," said the doctor, who was given to dropping final consonants in his speech. "I reckon I'll hear a good report of you from Mr. Buck. You look like you could stan' up to work like a soldier. But what's brought you and Little Lizay to the city? Anything gone wrong?" "Yes, moster," said Alston "mighty wrong.
That day Jason drove back to town with Scattergood. "Likely-lookin' girl Seliny," observed Scattergood. "Beautiful," said the parson, and Scattergood grinned. "Um!... Single ministers is a menace. Yes, sir, churches has busted up on account of their ministers not bein' married." There was no reply. "But I calculate you're different. You're jest made and created to be an old batch.
It was in the summer-time, the last time I was home, and, she bein' a likely-lookin' girl, I seen right much of her every now and then, and I just talk along and tell her 'bout New York and what a grand, lonely place it was, and how my heart got hongry for my own people, and things like that, you know, but I didn't mean nothin' serious or have any matrimony ideas, and first thing I know she done had me engaged to her.
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