A Legacy.~--Do you know what a legacy is?
If your father should die and leave to you a fine house or farm, or money in the bank, or books, or horses, or any other kind of property to have for your own, it would be a legacy.

When a person gets anything in this way from a parent we say that he inherits it.
~14.~ We inherit a great many things besides houses and lands and other kinds of property.

For instance, perhaps you remember hearing some one say that you have eyes and hair the same color as your mother's, and that your nose and chin are like your father's.

So you have inherited the color of your hair and eyes from your mother and the shape of your chin and nose from your father.
~15.

The Alcohol Legacy.~--The inside of a boy's head is just as much like his parents' as the outside of it.