chap, i.] STIRRING THE SOIL. 
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shoes, or if she should dislike these and pre¬ 
fer 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 gloves, 
or gauntlets, 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 which ought to be picked 
out and thrown into a small, light wheel¬ 
barrow, which may easily be moved from 
place to place. 
A wheel-barrow is a lever of the second 
kind, in which the weight is carried between 
the operator, who is the moving power, and 
the fulcrum, which is represented by the 
lower part of the wheel. If it be so con¬ 
trived that the wheel may roll on a plank, or 
on firm ground, a very slight power is suffi¬ 
cient to move the load contained in the bar- 
row; particularly if the handles be long, 
curved, and thrown up as high as possible, in 
order to let the weight rest principally upon 
the wheel, without obliging the operator to 
