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Young Boy
A young boy on his way to school one morning passes the outhouse by the pond behind the house. All of a sudden he gets a wild urge to push the outhouse into the pond, so with a running start he knocks it over and watches it roll a few times then slowly sink under the surface as he runs off towards school. In class that day, they learn about how George Washington cut down the cherry tree, but when confronted about it he told his father the truth and thus did not get a whipping for the deed. So he decides to use this strategy if questioned about the outhouse he pushed into the pond earlier in the day.As he approaches his house, he sees his father on the porch widdling a big switch. When he gets close enough his father says, "Boy, I'm only gonna ask this one time... what do you know about the outhouse getting pushed into the pond?"
The boy swallows hard and says, "Dad, just as George Washington cut down the cherry tree, but decided to tell the truth, I must admit to you that I pushed the outhouse into the pond."
With that his dad grabs him by the scruff of the neck and begins to give him a good ole country whippin', but the boy cries out, "But dad, George Washington's dad didn't whip him!"
His dad replies, "Yes son, that is true, but George Washington's dad was not IN the cherry tree when he cut it down!"