The 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying.
The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable.
They gave her some warm milk to drink but she refused. Then one of the nuns
took the glass back to the kitchen. Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey
received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a
generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank
a little, then a little more and before they knew it,she had drunk the whole
glass down to the last drop.
"Mother," the nun asked with an earnest look, "please give us some wisdom
before you die."
She raised herself up in bed and with a pious look on her face said, "Don't
sell that cow."
The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable.
They gave her some warm milk to drink but she refused. Then one of the nuns
took the glass back to the kitchen. Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey
received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a
generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank
a little, then a little more and before they knew it,she had drunk the whole
glass down to the last drop.
"Mother," the nun asked with an earnest look, "please give us some wisdom
before you die."
She raised herself up in bed and with a pious look on her face said, "Don't
sell that cow."
