Gone is gone (the story of a man who Wanted to Do Housework) (9)

Gone is gone (the story of a man who Wanted to Do  Housework) (9)

With big fast steps Fritzl hurried off to the garden.
He gathered potatoes and onions, carrots and cabbages, beets and beansm, turnips, parsley and celery.

" A little of everything, that will make a good soup, " said Fritzl as he went back to the house, his arms so full of vegetables that he could not even close the garden gate behind him.



He sat on a bench in the kitchen and began cutting and paring away.
How the man did work, and how the peelings parings did fly.

But now there was a great noise above him.

Fritzl jumped to his feet.
" That cow, " he said.
" She's sliding around right much up there on the roof. She might slip off and break her neck. "

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