HE’D SCOOP A LITTLE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 90, 21 November 1911, Page 8

HE’D SCOOP A LITTLE.

About the time ♦hat Daniel Drew began i!iis career, he was up the country one day to visit some friends, and two farmers called upon him to decide a case. One had sold the other five busnels of wheat, and proposed to measure it in half a bushel, andsweep the top of the measure with a stick. The other objected, and Drew was asked to decide “ Well, legally speaking, a bushel is only a bushel,” he answered. •* And can the measure be swept off ?" I think it can.” “What with?" • •* Well, if I was selling wheat I should probably use half the head of a flour barrel." " Which edge of it ? 1 ’ " Gentlemen, that is a point I cannot now decide on,” sighed, Daniel Drew. “If 1 was selling to a widow or preacher, I am certain that I should sweep the measure with the straight edge: but if I v was sellir ■ to a man who pastures his pigs in his *ghhour's corn, I’m afraid I should use th* circular side, and scoop a little to boot.”