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 I would not," he replied. The gentleman found he could not prove to the old gardener that he would have done just the same, so he left him thinking the matter over; when the thought struck him, "I will try the old man and prove to him how little he knows himself."

So a week or two after he prepared a very nice dinner of all sorts of things, and put covers over every dish. In the centre he put a large dish with its cover, and then called the gardener in. He told him what he had done, and that he might cat of all the dishes but the centre one. The old man was highly delighted, and assured