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Work to be done in the Garden . 
be frozen. The gardener or you will have heaped 
it up in some shed, or garden-house, so you will 
have a fine frosty day to work on, not to cut up 
the turf or the gravel walks, but the soil all the 
time will be as nice and light as possible. 
If you are making a garden now, you may also 
be preparing already to fill your beds. You can get 
all the heaps of stuff that you mean to make them 
of, put in their places ready, for you must well 
remember that in March and April every time a 
wheelbarrow goes along the ground it will do so 
much damage to your fine turf or gravel. 
Some people are so very lucky as to have a shed 
to themselves. If you have this you are real inde- 
pendent people. You can work away in January 
as briskly as in July, and such a cure for chil- 
blains and cold fingers never was invented. 
Of course in your shed you keep all your garden- 
tools. Then you have, I dare say, a great heap of 
soil. There are a good many things you will want 
in summer — and these I expect must be got now or 
never. 
We had a sand-hole, whence we fished out 
pieces of sand to carry shed-wards. I remember 
thinking some oyster-shells also a great find. 
If you are trusted rubbish-burning (have you 
