The nuns at a small convent were happy to learn that an anonymous donor had left his modest estate to them. Each nun had been left fifty dollars
cash to give away as she saw fit.Each sister announced how she would spend her bequest. Sister Catherine Anne decided to give her share to the first
poor person she saw. As she said this, she looked out of the window and saw a man leaning against the telephone pole across the street, and he looked
poor indeed.
She immediately left the convent and walked toward the man. He had obviously known better days, and the good nun felt he had been sent
by heaven to receive her offering. She pressed the fifty dollars into the man's hand and, as she did so, she said,
"Godspeed, my good man," and started to leave.
"What is your name?" he called after her.
Shyly she replied, "Sister Catherine Ann," and left.
The following evening, the man returned to the convent and rang the bell.
"I'd like to see Sister Catherine Ann," he said.
"I'm afraid I cannot disturb her now. She's in the chapel. May I give her your message?"
"Yeah," said the visitor gleefully,
"give her this hundred bucks and tell her Godspeed came in second!"
