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The carpenter was very tall, and people used to tell him: Someone like you should become a housepainter, not a carpenter, who has to bend over so much planing boards. He would answer: My mother apprenticed me into this trade for sixty crowns. That was how she got her dowry; I couldn't do a thing about it. That was his reply, but no one ever found out what sixty crowns or what dowry he was talking about.