Queer Reckoning

Indian street pedalera throughout .Mexico sell bananas for 12 cents a dozen, but wheu olïered 24 cents on payment for twö dozen bananas the peddlers refused it and demanded 25 cents. The course of reasoning is that 1 real is 12 cents; 2 reals, 25 cents; 8 reals niake a dollar. So the traveler must pay a real for one dozen bananas, but 25 cents for two dozen, and no amount of argument will convince the peddler that this is not right.