"Have you any money?," asked the judge.
"We only have five twenty cent pieces, your honor," pleaded the couple.
The judge ordered a silver plate to be brought into the court. He took the poor people's money and dropped it in the plate. Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink! One dollar dropped over and over again, two hundred times.
"There" said the judge. "You have now been paid."
"What!?" shouted the rich man. 
"Yes" said the judge. "As they have grown fat on the aroma of your food, so you are paid by the sound of their money."