3. Freedom from heavy labour. All heavy tasks such as ploughing, threshing, chopping, felling etc. make the blood thick and the body stiff. It is quite obvious that a farmer’s flesh is hard and tough whereas a maiden’s flesh is soft and tender, and a farmer cannot perform the same capers and nimble steps as a maid. When are we more pliable than when we are children, when are we stiffer than when we are worn out and old? A lad can put his foot to his own shoulder, a farmer cannot bite his own toes. Thus the Lapps remain lighter and more nimble in all their tasks because they are not faced with heavy Herculean labours.