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Updated: May 10, 2025
I suppose they are glad to see me, though not so glad when they discover that I have brought no gift in my hand, for indeed I have forgotten no quarter-pounds of tea no little three-cornered parcels of sugar. They begin to talk about Barbara at once.
Indeed, she found her days a little dreary, for the old lady was not entertaining, and she dared not go about much by herself in so metropolitan a place as Lewisham. Every morning she and her future mother-in-law went out shopping that is to say they bought half-pounds and quarter-pounds of various commodities which Joanna at Ansdore would have laid in by the bushel and the hundredweight.
But I've only Dinky-Dunk's bulky grain-scales, and it's impossible to figure down to anything as fine as ounces or even quarter-pounds on such a balancer. Yet my babies, I'm afraid, are not gaining as they ought. Poppsy is especially fretful of late. Why can't somebody invent children without colic, anyway? I have a feeling that I ought to run on low gear for a while.
The decimal measures below the gallon would correspond of course with the weights, as it is decided by the act, that a gallon is to contain ten pounds of water. The measures above gallons, it is proposed to call firkins and butts. It is taken for granted that quarts and pints, as well as half-pounds and quarter-pounds, would still be continued in use.
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