had as yet filled the place for not more than two or three weeks,
and was unused to the dignity of his position. While I was at
supper, the seventy-five teamsters were summoned into the common
eating-room by a loud gong, and sat down to their meal at the public
table. They were very dirty; I doubt whether I ever saw dirtier
men; but they were orderly and well behaved, and but for their
extreme dirt might have passed as the ordinary occupants of a well-
filled hotel in the West. Such men, in the States, are less clumsy
with their knives and forks, less astray in an unused position, more
intelligent in adapting themselves to a new life than are Englishmen
of the same rank. It is always the same story. With us there is no
level of society. Men stand on a long staircase, but the crowd
congregates near the bottom, and the lower steps are very broad. In
America men stand upon a common platform, but the platform is raised
above the ground, though it does not approach in height the top of
our staircase. If we take the average altitude in the two
countries, we shall find that the American heads are the more
elevated of the two. I conceived rather an affection for those
dirty teamsters; they answered me civilly when I spoke to them, and
sat in quietness, smoking their pipes, with a dull and dirty but
orderly demeanor.

The country about Lexington is called the Blue Grass Region, and
boasts itself as of peculiar fecundity in the matter of pasturage.
Why the grass is called blue, or in what way or at what period it
becomes blue, I did not learn; but the country is very lovely and
very fertile. Between Lexington and Frankfort a large stock farm,
extending over three thousand acres, is kept by a gentleman who is
very well known as a breeder of horses, cattle, and sheep. He has
spent much money on it, and is making for himself a Kentucky