A pound of butter

Once there was a farmer, who regularly sold a pound of butter to a baker.

One day, the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was actually getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to the local court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, “Your Honour, I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.”

The judge asked, “Then how do you weigh the butter using the scale?”

The farmer replied, “Your Honour, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I had been buying a loaf of bread from him, which too weighs a pound. Every day, when the baker supplies the bread, I place it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker.”

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

– George Bernard Shaw