The 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns
gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable. They
offered 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 Superior," 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."