Pious Pauly

After a huge rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, an old lady watched the two little cousins, Pauly and Maury, playing in the puddle through her kitchen window.

Pauly grabbed Maury by the back of his head and shoved his face into the water hole. As the boy recovered and stood laughing and dripping, the old lady ran to the yard in a panic.

"Why on earth did you do that to Maury?" she asked as she shook Pauly.

"We were just playing 'church'," Pauly said. "And I was just baptizing him... in the name of the Father, the Son and in the hole-he-goes.