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Tom satisfied him on this score , and then the ancient gave him the two shillings . Bidding him good-night , Tom returned home and went to bed . -LRB- Quite two years after , when Denison returned to Sydney from the South Seas with more money `` than was good for his moral welfare , '' as his sister-in-law remarked , he sought out the old cobbler gentleman and bought back his _ locomotor ataxy _ bean for as many sovereigns as he had been given shillings for it . -RRB- Next morning he was down at the wharves before six o'clock , smoking his pipe contentedly , after breakfasting sumptuously at a coffee-stall for sixpence . There was a little American barque lying alongside the Circular Quay , and some of the hands were bending on her head-sails . Tom sat down on the wharf stringer dangling his feet and watching them intently . Presently the mate appeared on the poop , smoking a cigar .