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When willow trees grew on his dike , he brought in German craftsmen to make willow furniture . Pepin subdued Neustria and Burgundy ; but as his pretence for destroying the mayors and kings was the grievances of the clergy , he could not strip the latter without acting inconsistently with his cause , and showing that he made a jest of the nation . " Tree rings , he added , can do that with " absolutely deadly precision . Quinn may be smarter , but in the time it takes him to think about who he 's going to pass to , he 'll be on his back . Assuredly not ; but , as Thiersch [ 682 ] has observed , he has made use of the element of truth lurking in the legend , which was inspired by a sort of prophetic instinct .