I am certain that you could not get a basketful of rubbish from his farm.
I used to put it in this way: there can be no justice in any contract expressed in monetary terms unless the pound bought the same basketful of goods to-day.
The price of the basketful of goods which we have to buy from abroad has fallen, while the price of our exports has kept up fairly well.
But as soon as their baskets were full they would go off to breakfast, and they would not come back until perhaps next day, when they would get another basketful.
