A 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 anything.
"Well, my wife ain't home, she's gone down to the crick to
wash clothes, but lemme see what you got," said the man.
The peddler showed him pots and pans, tools and gadgets,
but the 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 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 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!"
