Korean Children's Favorite Stories. Kim So-Un

can you imagine anything so silly? I asked my husband to buy me a comb in town, and look what he brought home—a strange young woman!"

      "Where? Where is she?" the mother asked, taking the mirror and peering into it.

      Of course, the mother saw reflected only the face of a wrinkled old woman. "Why, my child," she said, "what are you talking about? This must be an old relative of ours from a neighboring village."

      "No, you are wrong. It's a young woman," the young wife cried.

      "No, it's you who are wrong. Look, she's an old, wrinkled woman," the mother retorted angrily. Thus the two began quarreling.

      Just then a small boy came into the room, eating a rice cake. The boy picked up the mirror and peered into it. There he saw another boy eating a rice cake. The boy thought the stranger had taken his.