A Pound of Butter (Honesty)

Once there was a farmer who used to sell butter to a baker. One day, the baker decided to check if he was really getting a full pound of butter. When he weighed it, he found out it was less than a pound. Upset, he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer, “Do you use any standard weight to measure the butter?”

The farmer replied, “Your Honor, I’m a simple man. I don’t have proper weights, but I do have a scale.”

“Then how do you measure the butter?” the judge asked.

The farmer said, “Well, Your Honor, before the baker started buying butter from me, I used to buy a pound of bread from him. Every day, when he gave me the bread, I put it on my scale and gave him the same weight in butter. So if the weight is wrong, it means his bread was never a full pound.”

Moral: What you give is what you get. Be fair and honest with others.

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