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 'I would, Tom,' said the man in green. 'Tell him you have not been able to better yourself, and you have no objection now to dig up the asparagus bed.'

So Tom trudged home to his wife, gave her the money he had earned, got his old master to take him back, and kept a profound secret his adventures with the man in green, and the fish with the silver tails.

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