The internal appearance of the cabin corresponded well with the external.  The apartment occupied by the family during the day, where the meals were cooked and served, and the general household affairs attended to, was very homely; and might, if contrasted with some of the present time, be termed almost wretched; though considered, at the period of which we write, rather above than below the ordinary.  The floor was composed of what by the settlers were termed puncheons; which were made by splitting in half trees of some eighteen inches in diameter, and hewing the faces of them as regular as possible with the broad-axe.  These were laid, bark side downwards, upon sleepers running crosswise for the purpose, and formed at least a dry, solid and durable, if not polished, floor.  At one end of the cabin was the chimney, built of logs, outside the apartment, but connecting with it by a space cut away for the purpose.  The back, jambs, and hearth of this chimney were of stone, and put together, in a manner not likely to be imitated by masons of the present day.  A coarse kind of plaster filled up the surrounding crevices, and served to keep out the air and give a rude finish to the whole.

The furniture of the Younkers, if the title be not too ambiguous, would scarcely have been coveted by any of our modern exquisites, even had they been living in that age of straight-forward common sense.  A large, rough slab, split from some tree, and supported by round legs set in auger holes, had the honor of standing for a table—­around which, like a brood of chickens around their mother, were promiscuously collected several three-legged stools of similar workmanship.  In one corner of the room were a few shelves; on which were ranged some wooden trenchers, pewter plates, knives and forks, and the like necessary articles, while a not very costly collection of pots and kettles took a less dignified and prominent position beneath.  Another corner was occupied by a bed, the covering of which was composed of skins of different animals, with sheetings of home-made linen.  In the vicinity of the bed, along the wall, was a row of pegs, suspending various garments of the occupants; all of which—­with the exception of a few articles, belonging to Ella, procured for her before the death of her father—­were of the plainest and coarsest description.  A churn—­a clock—­the latter a very rare thing among the pioneers of Kentucky—­a footwheel for spinning flax—­a small mirror—­together with several minor articles, of which it is needless to speak—­completed the inventory of the apartment.  From this room were two exits, besides the outer door—­one by a ladder leading above to a sort of attic chamber, where were two beds; and the other through the wall into the adjoining cabin, whither our hero had been borne in a state of insensibility on the night of his mishap, and where he was for the second time presented to the reader.  This latter place was graced with a bed, a loom for weaving, a spinning-wheel, a large oaken chest, and a few rough benches.