The unaccustomed housework had roughened and chapped her hands, and the many failures in her cooking experiments, in spite of Mrs, Corbett's instructions, had left her tired and depressed, for a failure is always depressing, even if it is only in the construction of the things which perish.

Greek *grieta* f. crack; *s en las manos* chapped hands *gritar* shout *grito* m. shout, cry *grosería* f. coarseness, boorishness *guante* m. glove *guarda* m. guard; * de a caballo* mounted police *guardar* keep *guardia* f. guard *guardilla* f. attic *guarecer* shelter, guard *guarnición* f. trimming *guerra* f. war *guisado* m. stew *guisar* cook *gustar*

Greek *grieta* f. crack; *s en las manos* chapped hands *gritar* shout *grito* m. shout, cry *grosería* f. coarseness, boorishness *guante* m. glove *guarda* m. guard; * de a caballo* mounted police *guardar* keep *guardia* f. guard *guardilla* f. attic *guarecer* shelter, guard *guarnición* f. trimming *guerra* f. war *guisado* m. stew *guisar* cook *gustar*

In Patagonia "both sexes smear their faces, and occasionally their bodies with paint, the Indians alleging as the reasons for using this cosmetic that it is a protection against the effects of the wind; and I found from personal experience that it proved a complete preservative from excoriation or chapped skin.

Greek *grieta* f. crack; *s en las manos* chapped hands *gritar* shout *grito* m. shout, cry *grosería* f. coarseness, boorishness *guante* m. glove *guarda* m. guard; * de a caballo* mounted police *guardar* keep *guardia* f. guard *guardilla* f. attic *guarecer* shelter, guard *guarnición* f. trimming *guerra* f. war *guisado* m. stew *guisar* cook *gustar*

Greek *grieta* f. crack; *s en las manos* chapped hands *gritar* shout *grito* m. shout, cry *grosería* f. coarseness, boorishness *guante* m. glove *guarda* m. guard; * de a caballo* mounted police *guardar* keep *guardia* f. guard *guardilla* f. attic *guarecer* shelter, guard *guarnición* f. trimming *guerra* f. war *guisado* m. stew *guisar* cook *gustar*

"Johnnie ain't had the decency to give me her wages, not once since I've been her pappy; the onliest money I ever had from her'ceptin' to pay her boardwas when she tried to buy them chaps out o' workin' in the mill.

Greek *grieta* f. crack; *s en las manos* chapped hands *gritar* shout *grito* m. shout, cry *grosería* f. coarseness, boorishness *guante* m. glove *guarda* m. guard; * de a caballo* mounted police *guardar* keep *guardia* f. guard *guardilla* f. attic *guarecer* shelter, guard *guarnición* f. trimming *guerra* f. war *guisado* m. stew *guisar* cook *gustar*