shifty eyes are 'won't look you directly in the eye'...avoid eye contact...
etc...
OLD MEN back in the day ...had to be pretty smart in order to live that long.
the stupid died young.
It wasn't easy to be a cowboy in the west back then (which he was) Everything was out to get you...it was a tough life...and quite a few did NOT survive.
which part of my family?
some of them have always been here..
for hundreds of thousands of years for all I know.
a geneology search (my brother's hobby) traced the patriarchal linage back to the fifteen hundreds...about then it get's a little unclear.
well yeah..that too.
Irish, Scotch, German for sure..dunno what all else..
I think they came over in the 1600's...some of them.
consider...I have two parents(2)...each of whom have two parents(4) ...each of whom have two parents(8)...
16...32...64...128...256...512....1024...2048...4096...8192....16384...32768.....65536....131072....262144....524288.....1,048,576....
after twenty generations i could number my direct ancestors at over a million people...consider a generation to be 20...that'd be 400 years ago...in the sixteen hundreds? I had an ancestor then who owned a plantation in SCarolina then (according to my brother's research)...and another one of rather ill repute...
but those were only two...out of a million...see the problem?
shifty eyes are 'won't look you directly in the eye'...avoid eye contact...
etc...
OLD MEN back in the day ...had to be pretty smart in order to live that long.
the stupid died young.
It wasn't easy to be a cowboy in the west back then (which he was) Everything was out to get you...it was a tough life...and quite a few did NOT survive.
which part of my family?
some of them have always been here..
for hundreds of thousands of years for all I know.
a geneology search (my brother's hobby) traced the patriarchal linage back to the fifteen hundreds...about then it get's a little unclear.
well yeah..that too.
Irish, Scotch, German for sure..dunno what all else..
I think they came over in the 1600's...some of them.
consider...I have two parents(2)...each of whom have two parents(4) ...each of whom have two parents(8)...
16...32...64...128...256...512....1024...2048...4096...8192....16384...32768.....65536....131072....262144....524288.....1,048,576....
after twenty generations i could number my direct ancestors at over a million people...consider a generation to be 20...that'd be 400 years ago...in the sixteen hundreds? I had an ancestor then who owned a plantation in SCarolina then (according to my brother's research)...and another one of rather ill repute...
but those were only two...out of a million...see the problem?