Little Johnny’s Defense
Wednesday morning, Little Johnny comes into class late.
The teacher called him to her desk and said, “Johnny, This is the third time you’ve been tardy this week.”
Thinking of a punishment she says, “I want you to make a sentence out of these three words: defense, deduct, and detail.”
So at recess Johnny comes back into the room and tells her that he’s done.
He recites it to her: “De head of de duck goes over de fence before de tail.