Jock the Painter

There was a tradesman, a painter called Jock, who was very interested in
making a penny where he could, so he often would thin down paint to make it
go a wee bit further.

As it happened, he got away with this for some time but eventually the
Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the painting of
one of their biggest buildings. Jock put in a bid and, because his price was
so low, he got the job.

And so he set to erecting the trestles and setting up the planks and buying the
paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.

Well, Jock was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed
when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder and the sky opened, the
rain poured down,washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking
Jock clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded
by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.

Jock was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got on
his knees and cried: "Oh, God Forgive me! What should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke ...............
....... "Repaint! Repaint! and thin no more!"