Warm Milk
Posted: May 26, 2005 10:11 am
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 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 nuns asked with earnest, "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 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 nuns asked with earnest, "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."
