Funny anecdote about the honest poor, and quirky shopkeeper

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In one village lived a man and wife. They were very poor, but accumulating a little money were able to buy a cow. Wife made from her milk, the butter, cutting it to briquettes one kilogram, and the husband sold it in the local store.

After some time the owner of the shop started to doubt the correct weight of the briquettes oil. Then he weighed each of them and noticed that the weight of one briquette is only nine grams. The store owner got very angry at the poor man who sold his oil. And when he came into the store with another batch of goods, the owner attacked him with accusations:

— You lied to me! Briquette of your oil actually weighs pounds, and only nine grams! I'm not going to buy it from you.

The poor man was very upset, but looked with honest eyes at an angry store owner, and told him:

— But how so?! My wife and I have scales, but every time I bought you have a pound bag of sugar, making it for themselves the standard by which weighed and butter!

via factroom.ru