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From: jorolson@uok.UUCP
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Subject: PREACHER
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 08:51:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 08:51:00 1986
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Nf-From: uok.UUCP!jorolson    Mar 24 07:51:00 1986


                     THE TOUGH LIFE OF A PREACHER

     A preacher who wanted to raise money for his church was told there
was a fortune in horse racing, so he decided to buy a horse and enter it
in a race.
     However, at the local auction the going price for horses was so 
steep that he ended up buying a donkey instead.
     He figured, however, that since he had it he might as well go ahead
and enter it in the races.  To his surprise, in the first race his mule
came in second.  The next day the racing sheets carried this headline:

                         PREACHER'S ASS SHOWS

    The preacher was so pleased that he entered the mule in another
race.  This time it won and the paper said:

                      PREACHER'S ASS OUT IN FRONT

     The bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered
the preacher not to enter the donkey in another race.  The new headline
read:

                    BISHOP SCRATCHES PREACHER'S ASS

     This was too much for the bishop and he ordered the preacher to get
rid of the animal.  The preacher gave it to a nun in a nearby convent.
The headline the next day said:

                       NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN

     The bishop fainted.  He told the nun that she would have to dispose
of the donkey and she finally found a farmer who would take it off her
hands for $10.00.  The paper said:

                     NUN PEDDLES ASS FOR TEN BUCKS

    They buried the bishop the next day.