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