"NO MONEY IN LEARNING" joke

There was once a sexton who rang the bell in a church. That was his only means of livelihood as he was totally unlettered and could not even sign his name. Came a circular from the church authorities ordering the dismissal of all people employed in the church who couldn't read or write. So the poor fellow lost his job as a bell-ringer. He opened a small tea-stall near the church. It prospered. He opened a second, a third, and a fourth till he had a chain of tea-stalls across the country. He became a multi-millionaire. One day the padre of the parish came to ask for a donation to repair the church. He generously donated a million pounds. The grateful padre put a subscription voucher with the figure of a million pounds and asked him to sign it. He replied,' If I could have signed my name, I would still have been ringing the church bell.'

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