An old song goes, “I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around your neck, a hug around your neck and a barrel and a heap, a barrel and a heap and I’m talking in my sleep about you …” Three units of capacity of fruits and grains are in the words to the song. What are they?
A peck is 8 dry quarts: a bushel is 4 pecks or 32 dry quarts; a barrel is 105 dry quarts; a heap is an informal unit meaning a lot.
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