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every [unclear] are animal knows only the routine of a [drudges?] life. she is the slave of her Lord and master. administers to his wants and [unclear] and tends his children. without a thought higher. The early days of a squaw are spent in comparative idleness. but this only lasts a few years. at the age of twelve or even younger she is salable and frequently a child will be bartered to an old man. who may fancy her for his wife or squaw. and she may please him for a time. and then be discarded. but so long as she can work she may expect a teepee or wigwam to sleep in. subject of course to all the hardship of expense and cold. yet like a she bear. she seems unconcerned, as a rule. [However?] there are cases on record where indian women have become [unclear] by the hard [work?] and have committed suicide. but there are rare cases. indeed Child bearing is usually a very simple and easy [physical?] act. an expectant mother will ordinarily carry on her accustomed duties. retiring for an hour of two and wrapping her pappoose in a robe or blanket strap it to the pappoose [unclear] and go about her [work?] without the slightest [apparent?] inconvenience If as a [unclear] it is said she will ride off into the bush, and where entirely unattended she is delivered of the child will remount and overtake the [unclear] land. Nursing is to the indian woman neither annoying nor exhausting. she nurses her pappoose usually for two or more years. and seems to experience not the least inconvenience she never weans it but allows it to nurse so long as it chooses or till another is born. She is all animal, and as her [reserves?] are not [drawn upon?] in any way in the sense that her white sisters' are she stands what would otherwise be a drain upon her system with no inconvenience. or it seems. as the same time the squaw soon looses often married life the beauty of her youth. and grows [gross?] and then scrawny. and after that stage is reached she seems to last like a bundle of wire [unclear] to wear out. Little regard is paid to age. Few indian men or women knows their age and it is only by contact with the white man that they have any knowledge of it. and in fact why should they. They like other animals are born eat, sleep and die. and what matter to them if the number of their days be "three score years and ten" or not. so long as an indian has enough to eat. and he loves to eat, he is happy.