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The nuns at a small Brooklyn convent were happy to learn that an
anonymous donor had left his modest estate to them. Each nun
had been left $50 in cash to give away as she saw fit.

The sisters announced how she would spend her bequest. Sister
Catherine Ann decided to give her share to the first poor person
she saw.

As she said this, she looked out the window and saw a man leaning
against the telephone pole across the street, and he indeed looked
poor. She immediately left the convent and walked toward the man.
He had obviously known better days. The good nun felt he had been
sent by Heaven Above to receive her offering.

Pressing the $50 into the man's hands, she said: "Godspeed, my
good man."

As she left, the man called out to her: "What is your name, Sister?"

Turning, she replied shyly, "I am Sister Catherine Ann."

The following evening, the man returned to the convent and rang the
bell. "I'd like to see Sister Catherine Ann," he said.

The nun at the door answered, "I'm sorry, but I cannot disturb her right
now. She's in the chapel. May I give her a message?"

"Yes," said the man gleefully. "Give her this $100 and tell her Godspeed
came in second at Aqueduct."

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