A 99-year-old man was laying quietly. He was dying.
The nurses had gathered around his bed, placing garlands around him and trying to make his last journey comfortable.
They wanted to give him warm milk to drink but he declined. One of the nurses took the glass back to the kitchen.
Then, she remembered a bottle of Whiskey that had been received as a gift.
She opened it and poured a generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at man’s bed, they lifted his head gently and held the glass to his lips.
The old man drank a little, then a little more and in no time he had finished the whole glass down to the last drop.
As his eyes brightened, the nurses thought it would be a good opportunity to have one last talk with the old man.
"Father”, the nurses asked earnestly, "Please give us some of your wisdom before you leave us".
He raised himself up very slowly in the bed on one elbow, looked at them and said: "DON'T SELL THAT COW."
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