The Husband Who Was to Mind the House the end of the rope to himself. He went to grind grain for the porridge, but the cow fell off, and because he had run the rope through the chimney, it dragged him up. The wife returned and cut the rope so the cow came down but she found her husband with his head stuck in the pot. The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr". It is Aarne-Thompson type 1408 The man who does
The Railway Children Award for best Entertainment in 2011. The stage adaptation, produced by the National Railway Museum and York Theatre Royal, reopened in December 2014 in a new theatre behind London's Kings Cross station and is due to close on 8 January 2017. In 2011, Nesbit was accused of lifting the plot of the book from "The House by the Railway" by Ada J. Graves, a book first published in 1896 and serialised in a popular magazine in 1904, a year before "The Railway Children" first appeared. In both works the children's adventures bear remarkable similarities. At the climax Nesbit's characters use