The garden sprite, Enon, knew it could not approach the house closely enough to reach the kitchen without being found by the cat again. So it decided to take up the head of a dandelion that had fallen to the ground and wear it as a hat and as a disguise. In this way, more of the delectable sweets could be had without the risk to life and limb.

The first part of Enon the sprite’s plan worked brilliantly, for it blended in to the yard spectacularly well. Not only the cat, but all other creatures, seelie and unseelie, failed to detect it. However, the one thing that Enon failed to take into consideration was that a dandelion disguise, no matter how perfect, stood out rather strongly in a kitchen.

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