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came to life, he just lay wherever M'gee left him. When Elen sprinkled Fairy-dust on him, he was born, for some reason, with a sense of humour. So he found it quite amusing when M'gee couldn't find him, especially if she was stomping around in her big boots and muttering as she looked. One day Sammy was helping M'gee look for the hoe. "Oh little HOOOoooe," she called..." Little Hidey HOE, where are you?"

"I like that name," M'gee exclaimed and after that everybody always called him Hidey Hoe.

The next night when the newly awakened Hidey Hoe was lying with Glove and Clippy Shears, Elen sprinkled Fairy dust on them too and they came alive. Each immediately had a personality that came, not from Elen, but from their basic nature. Glove was made of leather and that meant he had once been alive in a different form. He was born angry and holding a grudge. It came from the trauma he had suffered in his previous life as the hide of a cow. It was a pleasant, peaceful life, soaking up the sun while the cow grazed in green pastures. But one day his cow was rounded up and sent off to the slaughter house. It was dreadful, too dreadful to describe and before he knew it, he had been tanned and turned into half of a pair of gloves.

He was the Left Hand and part of the hide had become his Soul Mate and Life-Partner, Right Hand Glove. They lived together for two years, first in the factory, then packaged up in a box, waiting to be sold and then in the store, until one day M'gee bought them and brought them home to the Garden. But she didn't take care of them, they were left in the weather, never cleaned and grew old before their time. Then they were separated. So when Glove came alive he was angry at M'gee for taking away his beloved Right-hand Glove.

Clippy Shears was different. She had a very feminine personality. She liked her figure and her shiny metal bits. She was smarter and more sophisticated than Hidey Hoe, being made of moving parts. She had come from the Earth, like Hidey, and been melted, cut and shaped. Plastic handles had been attached to the finely tuned blades. She was a work of art and that made her rather vain. She spent time in a store too but had no partner, being whole in herself. She wanted to help M'gee in the Garden but did resent being left out in the rain. "I'm young and rust-proof now" she thought when Elen brought her to life, "but I deserve to be treated better than that!"

So the stage was set for trouble. Three tools now had brains, ideas and plans.

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