The Husband Who Looked After The House (folk Tale -norway)
(Ken Methold; Helen Jacobs)
There was once a
farmer who was always criticizing his wife. One day, she was so very angry with
him that she said, ?I?m going to work in the fields. You can do my work in the
house. Let?s see how well you do it!?
The man?s first
job was to make the butter. The work soon made him thirsty, so he went down to
the cellar to drink some wine.
While he was
opening the barrel, he heard the pig come into the house and knock over the
butter dish.
He ran back
upstairs to stop the pig form doing more damage, forgetting to put the cork
back in the wine barrel. As a result, wine spilled all over the floor.
By the time he
had chased the pig out of the kitchen, it was lunchtime.
He put the soup
on to boil, the remembered that he had not fed the cow yet. There wasn?t time
to take the cow out to the field, so he decided to take it onto the roof. There
it could eat the grass that grew among the tiles.
It wasn?t easy
getting the cow onto the roof, but at last he succeeded. To make sure that it
did not fall off, he tied it to the chimney with a rope.
He had just
finished doing this when he remembered the soup. He did not want it to burn, so
to get to the kitchen quickly, he decided to lower himself down the chimney.
He tied one end
of the rope to his foot and the other end to the cow. He had just reached the
kitchen when the cow slipped and fell off the roof. The man was pulled back up
the chimney and got stuck there.
The first thing
his wife saw when she came home was the cow hanging form the rope, so she cut
it loose. The man immediately fell down the chimney into the fireplace.
When the woman
entered the house, she saw the floor covered with butter, the cellar flooded with
wine and her husband upside down with his head in the soup!
The farmer
promised never to complain again if in the future his wife would do the
housework.
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