An old man and his wife lived …
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 wifewanted to buy something. “Well, my wife ain’t home, she’s gone down to the creekto wash clothes, but lemma see what you got,” said the man. The peddler showedhim pots and pans, tools and gadgets, but the old man wasn’t interested. Thenthe man spotted a mirror and said, “What’s that?” Before the peddler could tellhim it was a mirror, the old man picked it up and said, “My God how’d you get apicture of my Pappy?” The old man was so happy, he traded his wife’s bestpitcher 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 bestpitcher, so he hid it in the barn behind some boxes of junk. He would go out tothe barn 2 or 3 times a day to look at the “picture” and eventually the wife gotsuspicious. One day she got fed up and after he retired for the night, she wentout 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!”
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