TIT FOR TAT.
The baker of a local village was oue of the good old fashioued sort and keen alter the peuce. He considered it to his advantage to buy his butter from a customer, a well-to-do farmer in the neighbourhood, but after a time ho complained that the farmer gave him short weight. His complaints were uuheeded. At last he laid them before the district magistrate. The farmer was summoned before him and forced to produce his scales, but lie brought no weights. "Aa've browt ne weights." lie explained. "Aa didn't need them." "Not need weights?" the magistrate asked. "Not for the baker. Aa weigh his weekly pooud o' butter with the pooud loaf he sends te me," was the farmer's reply.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 6
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123TIT FOR TAT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 6
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