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Rh ings of the assistants are even excruciating. But how great is the joy when the hour of pain is over, and the family is increased by a son or a daughter!

A crooked piece of wood, in the form of a half-circle, or rather a large horse-shoe, connects the two poles or shafts of the cart, over the horse's head. The fabricating of these crooked and elastic pieces, which requires a great deal of pains, particularly as every piece of wood will not answer the purpose, is the business of the men. Krummholtzmacher, Krummholtzhohler, or crooked wood-maker, is therefore, in the following specimen, as much as to say, a man.

To play the reel is the same as to wind off yarn, the employment of the women, and is here used to denote that sex.