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Once upon a time, a little garden hoe came alive. No one knows how this happened, but M'gee suspects Elen did it. Elen is a fairy that lives in the garden. Hidey Hoe wasn't the only tool to come to life, either. Glove came alive and so did Clippy Shears. That was too much of a coincidence to M'gee, so she suspected the little Fairy had something to do with it. Actually M'gee's Granddaughter Sammy is probably to blame the most, because she believes in Fairies and that was how Elen came alive in the first place.

M'gee is an old Scottish lady who lives in the country. She has a garden where she tries to raise vegetables and flowers, but she is not very good at it. Sammy liked to go down to M'gee's Garden, where she looked for fairies because she is only 5 and still believes in Fairies with all her heart.

It is a little known fact that if you go looking for something, you will almost certainly find it. So Sammy found Elen, who was rather unformed at the time, just made of beams of light that darted about the garden and rested in the flowers. When Sammy saw those beams of light, she saw in them the shape of a Fairy and that caused Elen to take that shape and become visible, even to M'gee.

After Sammy gave Her a Shape, she gave Elen her Name and taught her to speak. But though Sammy created Elen, Elen had her own ideas, her own personality, and own view about what was going on in the Garden. That's where the trouble started, because Elen saw a problem in the Garden and decided to solve it by bringing the Garden Tools to Life.

M'gee had started her Garden with the usual assortment of garden tools, including a little green hoe with no handle, which she found worked much better for her than the long-handled hoes. She used it to dig in the soil but when she finished each day, she just left it lying wherever she was working. She had several pairs of gloves too but ended up losing most of them and keeping just one left hand glove with her in the garden. When she finished working each day, she put the left hand glove, the little hoe with no handle and a small pair of pruning shears that she also liked to use on the ground and walked off, just leaving them out in the weather until she returned. This wasn't good for them and so Elen decided to teach M'gee a lesson. She cast a spell on Hidey Hoe, Glove and little Clippy Shears and they came to life.

Hidey Hoe was the first. Because he has no handle. he could easily hide in the Garden and that is how he got his name. Before he

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