An old man and his
wife lived deep in the
hills and seldom saw many people.
One day a peddler came by to sell
his goods and asked the man if he or
his wife
wanted to buy
something. „Well, my wife ain’t home, she’s gone down
to the
creek
to wash clothes, but lemma see what you got,“ said the man. The
peddler showed
him pots and pans, tools and gadgets, but the old man
wasn’t
interested. Then
the man spotted a mirror and said,
„What’s that?“ Before the peddler
could tell
him it was a mirror, the
old man picked it up and said, „My God how’d
you get a
picture
of my Pappy?“ The old man was so happy, he traded his wife’s
best
pitcher for it. The peddler left before the wife came back and
spoiled
his sale.
The old man was worried that the wife would be mad
at him for trading
her best
pitcher, so he hid it in the barn
behind some boxes of junk. He would
go out to
the barn 2 or 3
times a day to look at the „picture“ and eventually
the wife
got
suspicious. One day she got fed up and after he retired for the
night,
she went
out to the barn. She saw the mirror behind the
boxes, picked it up and
said,
„so this is the hussy he’s been
foolin‘ around with!“
