An observant but not very rich old lady always bought her tea by the quarter of a pound, because she thus got what she termed the “turn of the scale” four times in every pound of tea, instead of once, as would have been the case if she bad purchased a single pound.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 196, 25 January 1875, Page 3
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53Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume II, Issue 196, 25 January 1875, Page 3
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