Resting her hands on her wide hips, the abbess, Fat Gerta,
closely scrutinized the young man sitting before her.  “You are young
for a journeyman carpenter, are you not?”  She handed the lad a cup of
ale.
“I assure you, Reverend Mother, I have completed my
apprenticeship. I learned my trade from none other than Master Albert
Runz of Dornsberg, the [...]