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her hand were to undergo a multitude of transformations. These 

 had to be broken up or ground, and called for the devising of 

 grinding apparatus. Wherever the tribes went in the early days 

 women found out by and by the great staple productions that 



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were to be their chief reliance; and "the whole industrial life of 

 woman is built up around these staples. From the first journey 

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