Teacher: George Washington. Who can tell me who he is?
Sherman: [raising his hand] Oh, me! I can! I can!
Teacher: [looking through her student checklist] Uh, Sherman.
Sherman: The first president of the United States of America.
Teacher: Good job. And when President Washington was a little boy, what kind of tree did he cut down?
Sherman: [raising his hand again] Oh, oh, me, me! Me, me!
Teacher: [as Penny raises her hand] Penny?
Penny: A cherry tree.
Sherman: Apocryphal.
Teacher: What kind of tree is that?
Sherman: It's not a tree; it's a word. Apocryphal. It means that story is not true.
Teacher: Really?
Sherman: Yeah. George Washington never cut down a cherry tree, and he never said he couldn't lie. People made those stories up to teach kids a lesson about lying, but they're not true. He did cross the Delaware River Christmas night, 1776, though. My dad took me there this summer. We crossed it, too. I fell in.
[The class, except Penny, laugh]
Teacher: [astonished] Well, looks like someone really knows their history, huh, Penny?
[Penny glares and growls jealously at Sherman and snaps her pencil in half]
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