Perhaps no American schoolboy's composition has ever put ' the Father of his Country' on a strange moral basis than this —the letter appears in a Transatlantic contemporary— ' George Washington was a little boy what once lived in Verginny what had a nai given him by his old man. Wen Georges old man f oun out what George an the nother boy he called George too him an he ses, George Washington who cutted the bark ofen the cherry tree? George ses i did Tha old man sais you did $£V George sais i did and i cannot tell a li. Why cant you tell a li sais the the old man. Coz sais George if i tell a li this hero fellrrl blow on me an then ill be sp„>iked twict. Tbats rite sais the .old man wenover yer git in to the esyist way out is tna best.'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2987, 21 January 1881, Page 4
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