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 a diocese decided to do a
big restoration job on the painting of one of their biggest churches.

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 the 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 tell-tale 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: "O God! Forgive me! What should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke....

(You're gonna love this)

"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"