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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 302, 1 June 1875, Page 3

A pedlar, having run short of butter, applied to a farmer's wife for a supply. " How much do you want?" said the woman. "One pun' will do," said the peillar. "I canna mak' you a pun'," replied the woman; " I haven't a pun' weight."—" Weel, what weight hae ye," said the pedlar. "Twa pun'," said the woman. "And whaur is the weight," said the man. "Oh, it's jist the tangs here!"—" Weel," said he, "put ane leg in the scale and the other out, and that'll be a pun'." The woman did as requested ; but when it was weighed she looked doubtfully at the butter, and said, "It looks a dreadfully muckle pun'."—" Oh, it's a' richt, woman," said the pedlar; "how much is it?"—"A saxpence, was the reply ; which the pedlar paid, and departed rather hastily, lest the good woman should discover that "one leg in and one leg out " was not the exact way of weighing a pound of butter with a pair of tongs,