There was a tradesman, a painter named Jerry, who was very
interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his
paint to make it go a wee bit further
As
it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the
Baptist Church decided to do a big
restoration job on the painting of one of their biggest buildings. Jerry
put in a bid, and because his price was so low, he got the
job.
And so he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the
planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down
with turpentine.
Well, Jerry was up on the scaffolding, painting
away, the job nearly completed when suddenly there was a horrendous clap
of thunder, and the sky opened, the rain poured down, washing the thinned
paint from all over the church and knocking Jerry clear off the scaffold
to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles
of the thinned and useless paint.
Jerry was no fool. He knew this
was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: "Oh,
God! Forgive me! What should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice
spoke...
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"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"