The Widow's Case

I heard this story on Saturday given by the speaker for the day.  This is the story he told the children to illustrate his talk.

There once was a widow who lived in Germany.  To make money to live she use to make butter and sell it.
This was long before machines and so the lady had to use a butter churn and make the milk.  Every day she would take the milk and churn the cream to make a pound of butter.

She exchanged her butter for goods such as bread. 
One day the baker weighed the butter and discovered that the butter was under weight.  He thought he was been duped of his money.  So he took her to the judge in town.

The baker told how the widow had given him butter weighing less than the pound.  What did she have in defence of this?

Well the story went like this her grandchildren came to stay and played with her scales.  They had lost some of the weights that she used to weigh how much butter was in the packet.

But what did this have to do with the baker's butter.

Well seeing she didn't have the correct weights she had used the bread the baker sold to weigh her butter with. The judge then made the observation that baker didn't have a case.

Why not well the bread was sold by the pound.

Thus the adaged
Be sure your sins will find you out.
What ever you sow, so shall you reap.