Gone is gone (the story of a man who Wanted to Do Housework) (11)

Gone is gone (the story of a man who Wanted to Do  Housework) (11)

He heaped some sticks on the fireplace and set a big kettle of water over it.

" Na, na ! " he said.

" Things are going as they should at last, and we'll soon have a good big soup. Now i'll put the vegetables in the kettle ー "
And that he did. 

" And now I'll put in the bacon ー "
And that he did too.

" And now I'll light the fire ー"

But that he never did, for just then, with a bump and thump, the cow slipped over the edge of the roof after all; and Fritzl ー well, he was whisked up into the chimney and there he dangled, poor man, and couldn't get up and couldn't get down.

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