A priest wanted to raise money for the church. He was told that there was a fortune in horse racing, so he decided to purchase a horse and enter it in a race. However, at an auction, the going price for a horse was so steep that he decided to buy a donkey and race him. To his surprise, the donkey came in third. The next day the racing sheet carried the headline PRIEST'S ASS SHOWS. The priest was pleased with the donkey and entered it in another race. This time it won. The paper reported PRIEST'S ASS OUT IN FRONT. The bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the priest not to enter the donkey in any more races. The newspaper read BISHOP SCRATCHES PRIEST'S ASS. This was just too much for the bishop, so he ordered the priest to get rid of the donkey. The priest gave the donkey to a nun at a nearby covent, and the headline read NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN. The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to dispose of the donkey. She sold it to a farmer for ten dollars, and the paper duly recorded NUN PEDDLES ASS FOR TEN BUCKS. They buried the bishop the next day.