likely-lookin'baby

Updated: July 11, 2025

Poor Bill! it wuz his wife that the men were carryin' in that pine box to the baggage-car. "Likely-lookin'baby, Bill," says I, cheerful like. "Perfect pictur' uv its mother; kind uv favors you round the lower part uv the face, tho'." I said this to make Bill feel happier.

Eugene Field - A Little Book of Profitable Tales