Beschrijving
The Great Farmhouse. This miscellaneous type comprises various tales dealing with an enormous farm, its separate buildings (house, barn, kiln, granary, mill, church, etc.), or the management there [X1030–1036]. The following are the most common variants:
A building is so tall that when an axe falls from the peak of the roof, a swallow is able to build her nest in it, lay her eggs, and rear her young, before the axe hits the floor.
A barn is so long that when a cow is taken to the bull at the other end, she gives birth to her calf before she gets back to her stall.
A church is so big that when a baby is baptized, he is old enough for his first communion before he comes out.
A room is so big that, for three years, the father and mother look for each other inside it. On his way to his morning coffee, the farmer has to stop twice for meals. From the middle of the room the walls are not visible, so people have to use the floorboards to orient themselves.
Everything on the farmstead is enormous: buildings, animals, fields, tools, plants, catch of fish, oven, containers, cooking implements, pipes, people, and cattle. The cows give so much milk that it flows out of the stall like an ocean, and someone in a boat has to float on it to skim the cream, etc.
A building is so tall that when an axe falls from the peak of the roof, a swallow is able to build her nest in it, lay her eggs, and rear her young, before the axe hits the floor.
A barn is so long that when a cow is taken to the bull at the other end, she gives birth to her calf before she gets back to her stall.
A church is so big that when a baby is baptized, he is old enough for his first communion before he comes out.
A room is so big that, for three years, the father and mother look for each other inside it. On his way to his morning coffee, the farmer has to stop twice for meals. From the middle of the room the walls are not visible, so people have to use the floorboards to orient themselves.
Everything on the farmstead is enormous: buildings, animals, fields, tools, plants, catch of fish, oven, containers, cooking implements, pipes, people, and cattle. The cows give so much milk that it flows out of the stall like an ocean, and someone in a boat has to float on it to skim the cream, etc.
Motief
X1030
Combinaties
1960F, 1960J, and 1960K.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1960E
Subgenre
mop