A preacher wanted to raise money for his church and on being told that 
there was a fortune in horseracing, decided to purchase one and enter 
it in the races. However, at the local auction, the going price for 
horses was so high that he ended up buying a donkey instead.

He figured that since he had it, he might as well go ahead and enter it 
in the races. To his surprise, the donkey came in third! The next day 
the local paper carried this headline:

                    PREACHER'S ASS SHOWS

The preacher was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the 
race again, and this time it won.  The paper read:

                    PREACHER'S ASS OUT IN FRONT

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered 
the preacher not to enter the donkey in another race. The paper 
headline read:

                    BISHOP SCRATCHES PREACHER'S ASS

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the preacher to get rid 
of the donkey. The preacher decided to give it to a nun in a nearby 
convent. The paper headline the next day read:

                    NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN

The Bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid 
of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.00. The next day the 
headline read:

                    NUN PEDDLES ASS FOR $10.00

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the 
donkey, lead it to the plains where it could run wild and free. The 
next day, the headline in the paper read:

                    NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE

They buried the Bishop the next day.