Queer Reckoning

ludían gtreet peddlers throughout Mexico sell bananas tor ia cents a -dozen, but when offered 24 ceuta ou payment tor two dozen bananas the peddlers refused it and denianded 25 cents. The course of reasoning is that 1 real is ia cents; 2 reals, 25 cents; 8 reals niake a dollar. So the traveler raust pay a real for one dozen bananas, but 25 cents tor two dozen, and no ainount of argument will convince the peddler that this is uot right.