Bread and butter

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Originally uploaded by niznoz.

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the
Baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he
found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied,
"I
am Your Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have
a scale,". The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer
replied, "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I
have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker
brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in
butter."