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<div>How true! I had two 10-foot rows of asparagus in the yard before Dermot arrived, and it never occurred to me he would eat it.<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"> And the first year, he didn't -- although he arrived
as a 4-month-old pup right before Independence Day, by which time the asparagus had already been harvested. But he didn't bother the ferns that developed later in the summer.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">The next year, Dermot didn't bother the asparagus when it came up and was harvested, but late in the summer he took an interest in the ferns. At that point, the ferns had dried up,
and I believed he thought they were just little sticks.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">The third year, Dermot ate up the asparagus as soon as it started to come up. Ate them down to the roots. And ate the roots.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">The fourth year, there was no longer any asparagus in the yard.</span></div>
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