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One day in a little town, there was an old man whose name was Samuel and he was an obstinate fellow. One morning, however, the villagers gathered around with a brace of enthusiasm, and they proposed a further new plot of land for a communal garden. And Samuel grumbled, “I won’t even consider that!” by which he was quite unaware, that the garden would soon appear as a symbol of union showing that sometimes reluctance yields unexpected beauty.