Though entirely uneducated, they could converse very easily, seeming to inherit their father's fluency of utterance.

They were active and efficient in aiding their mother in her household work.

Colonel Crockett, with much apparent pleasure, conducted his guest over the small patch of ground he had grubbed and was cultivating.

He exhibited his growing peas and pumpkins, and his little field of corn, with as much apparent pleasure as an Illinois farmer would now point out his hundreds of acres of waving grain.

The hunter seemed surprisingly well informed.