A 98-Year-Old Mother

A 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying.

The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable.

They tried giving her some warm milk to drink but she refused it.

One of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen and 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, the nun 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 with earnest,

“please give us some wisdom before you die.”

She raised herself up in bed and whispered, “Don't sell that cow