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Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty hunters, – men who lived in the woods, and slept under the free, open heavens, with the stars to hold their candles; and their descendant to this day always acts as if the house were his camp, – wears his hat at all hours, tumbles himself about, and puts his heels on the tops of chairs or mantel-pieces, just as his father rolled on the green sward, and put his upon trees or logs, – keep all the windows and doors open, winter and summer, that he may get air enough for his great lungs, – calls everybody “stranger”, with nonchalant bonhommie, and is altogether the frankest, easiest, most jovial creature living.
