Tall Stories and Jokes from
Ireland
Don't
despair, Sister Eulalia.
A nun was sitting at a window in
her convent one day...
when she was handed a letter from
home. Upon opening it a
$10 bill dropped out. She was most
pleased at receiving the
gift from her home folks, but as
she read the letter her
attention was distracted by the
actions of a shabbily dressed
stranger who was leaning against
a post in front of the
convent. She couldn't get him off
her mind and, thinking that
he might be in financial difficulties,
she took the $10 bill and
wrapped it in a piece of paper,
on which she had written,
"Don't despair, Sister Eulalia,"
and threw it out of the
window to him. He picked it up,
read it, looked at her with a
puzzled expression, tipped his
hat and went off down the
street. The next day she was in
her cell saying her beads
when she was told that some man
was at her door who
insisted on seeing her. She went
down and found the
shabbily dressed stranger waiting
for her. Without saying a
word he handed her a roll of bills.
When she asked what
they were for he replied, "That's
the sixty bucks you have
coming. Don't Despair paid 5-1."
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