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have been heavy, each has made the other's lighter, the satisfaction fuller, the joys keener, the sorrows less difficult to bear; and the children who came into the home and have gone from it to perpetuate new ones, could not well be other than such as to contribute to the foundations of nations of great strength and long endurance.
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Fig. 248.—After seventy years, toil may not cease.
Reference has been made to the large amount of work
carried on in the farmers' households by the women and
children, and by the men when they are not otherwise
employed, and the earnings of this subsidiary work have
materially helped to piece out the meagre income and
to meet the relatively high taxes and rent.
