The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-02-22
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

shakes OF name, and There was nothing partic-
ularly taking ab0at it but the truth is, those
old washiBgtons were a little cranky on the
subject Of names, and usually pitched upon
something outlandish. One of them was called
Bushrod, another steptoe, and so on. The fact
that the father proposed the name of George,
instead of Beeswax, or Headcheese, or Tarbuck-
ct, or some other outlandish name. he was
Just liable to do, was what caused Mrs. Wash
ington's joy, and she took him at his word, be-
fore he had chance TO back down. This is the
person whose birthday we honor to-day.
Friends let ms also be thankful that it was
George Washington, instead of Liverpad WASH
ington, or Clawhammer Washington. rs il might
have been.
George Washington has been held up to the
children of postsrity as the boy who could not
tell lie. There have been boys who could not
smoke cigars, eat oysters, but Washington
the boy who could not tell a lie Aside
from the queer taste for names, Washingtons
parents were people of good sense. They knew
that there was not a boy ever lived who would
not lie if he could so they had George vaccinated
for it, when he was baby. II took, and thence
forth he couldn't lie, let him try never so hard.
When the old gentleman found his Early Rich
mond cherry tree hacked to death, he knew very
well who had done it. Says he, George, who
cut those treer George bega, TO stammer and
to grapple for first-elass boy lie, that wouldn't
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