Jack the Worm

 Franny awoke early to get a head start on her gardening duties before spring planting. Izba, the magical cat, cared little for vegetables. He told the hedgewitch that, rather than grow vegetables, she should go to the market like everyone else. Besides, the butcher usually snuck him scraps to nibble on the way home.

Franny would hear none of it. "Come along, you lazy fur bag; I have weeds to pull, and your claws would be more helpful for destroying weeds than my carpet."

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