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it joins the handle, by a piece of iron rather broader than itself, 
which 1s called the tread, to serve as a rest for the foot of the opera- 
tor while digging. ‘The handle is about the usual length, but quite 
smooth and sufficiently slender for a lady’s hand to grasp, and it 1s 
made of willow, a close, smooth, and elastic wood, which is tough 
and tolerably strong  ieach camels lighter than cia the wood gen- 
erally used for the hitadios to gardeners’ spades. The lady should 
so be provided with clogs, the soles of which are not jointed, to put 
over her shoes; or if she should dislike these, and prefer strong 
~ shoes, she should be provided with what gardeners call a tramp, that 
is, a small plate of iron to go under the sole of the shoe, and which 
is fastened round the foot with a leathern strap and buckle. She 
should also have a pair of stiff thick leathern gloveg, or gauntlets, 
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A Lady’s Gauntlet of strong leather, invented by Miss Perry of Stroud, near Hazlemere. 
to protect her hands, not only from the handle of the spade, but from 
the stones, weeds, &c., which she may turn over with the earth, and 
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