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To weigh outdrachm of saffron
Saffron threads heaped, crimson going to gold at the tips.
Right — pull up a stool. That heap's already weighed onto the left pan at your order. Now drag my brass on. Too heavy on the far side? Then that weight belongs IN with the saffron, not against it — drop it on the goods' own pan and it takes its own weight straight off.
the felt block

Left pan lightens what's there; the far pan piles it on. So every order from one to forty is just some of these four added and some taken away — 27 − 9 + 1 is nineteen, and off you go. Go on, have a shift at it.

PARCELS WEIGHED OUT AT THIS STALL: 0