The Ounce of Detention

Herford, no. 28

Once a pound-keeper chanced to impound
An ounce that was straying around.
The pound-keeper straight
Was fined for false weight,
Since he’d only one ounce in his pound.

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXVI, May 1913, no. 1, p. 158.]

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