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This is a story about some lazy worms.

There are many different kinds of worms in our story who are eating in the farmer's garden.

These worms think they know everything and tell the earthworms and june bog larvae

on true stories.

The worms are selfish and lazy, and in the end find out they should have been willing

to do a bit more for themselves.

The lazy cutworms.

Now that spring had come and all the green things were growing, the cutworms crawled out

of their winter-sleeping places in the ground and began to eat the tenderest and best things

that they could find.

They felt rested and hungry after their quiet winter, where they had slept without

awakening ever since the first really cold days of fall.

There were many different kinds of cutworms, brothers and sisters, cousins and second cousins,

so of course they did not all look alike.

They had hatched the summer before from eggs laid by the owl at moths, their mothers,

and had spent the time from then until cold weather, in eating and sleeping and eating

some more.

Of course they grew a great deal, but then you know, one can grow without taking time,

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