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 English Women Doing their **Bit

��In the circle is a girl who is doing her part as a bricklayer. She does only the tasks that re- quire no skilled labor; but that fact does not les- sen the manual exertion required

��Another girl who is helping to keep the roads in repair in the country. The heavy work is done by men, but the girl may do much by merely filling up the many worn spots with crushed rock

���A modern ferry woman. Among the men's tasks assumed by the British women is that of operating a row- boat ferry across a tidal river

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