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364 penciled at top of page. Also 14 Labours of the women. - manner of cooking, household furniture, etc. The women got their own wood for cooking, unless as they might be assisted by very old men. They also carried all the water for family use. It was, and is now considered disgraceful for men or boys to be seen carrying water. The women pounded all the corn and prepared the food for the family, washed etc. besides assisting in raising corn potatoes etc. Formerly it was the custom for the whole town to enclose one large field, in which each family had its particular share. In this all the town, men & women worked together, first in one part, and then in another, according to the direction of one whom they had selected to manage the business and whom, therefore, in this respect, called their head man.