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Nicholas learned of a poor man who had three daughters who could not afford to pay dowries for them to marry. He planned to sell his daughters into prostitution. Nicholas came late at night, on three different occasions, and dropped a bag of gold coins down the chimney so the man would have a dowry for each daughter.

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