All this, whilst it was doing, interested Taffy mightily; and he announced his intention of being a carpenter one of these days. "I hope," said Humility, "you will look higher, and be a preacher of God's Word, like your father." His father frowned at this and said: "Jesus Christ was both." Taffy compromised: "Perhaps I'll make pulpits." This was how he came to have a bedroom with a vaulted roof and a window that reached down below the floor..