The Picture....

I heard my Mom tell this joke many times when I was younger..but in her's it was a Scotchman that had gone to his first Fair....she told it with a very good Scottish accent. I always thought it was funny! Jo

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 anything.
The man said, "Well, my wife ain't home. She's gone
down to the creek to wash clothes, but lemme see
what you got."
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 his wife would be mad
at him for trading her best pitcher, so he hid the
mirror 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!"