She must also attend to the children; and in travelling carry all the moveable property and frequently the weapons of her husband.

In wet weather she attends to all the outside work, whilst her lord and master is snugly seated at the fire.

If there is a scarcity of food she has to endure the pangs of hunger, often, perhaps, in addition to ill-treatment or abuse.

No wonder, then, that the females, and especially the younger ones, (for it is then they are exposed to the greatest hardships,) are not so fully or so roundly developed in person as the men.

Yet under all these disadvantages this deficiency does not always exist.