silver nose
there was once a widowed washerwoman with three daughters all four of them worked their fingers to the bone washing, but they still went hungry one day the oldest daughter said to her mother, "i intend to leave home, even if i have to go and work for the devil"
"don't talk like that, daughter," replied the mother "goodness knows what might happen to you"
not many days afterward, they received a visit from a gentleman attired in black he was the height of courtesy and had a silver nose
"i am aware of the fact that you have three daughters," he said to the mother "would you let one come and work for me?"
the mother would have consented at once, had it not been for that silver nose which she didn't like the looks of she called her oldest girl aside and said, "no man on earth has a silver nose if you go off with him you might well live to regret it, so watch out"
