hatchet quotes

Father, I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

- BookerTaliaferro Washington
In childhood, on admitting to vandalizing a cherry tree, attributed by Mason LockeWeems (ParsonWeems) in his Life and MemorableActions of GeorgeWashington (5th edn, c.1810).Weems claimed to have heard the tale from an elderly lady, a distant relation ofWashington's, 20 years earlier.