There was a Cajun painter named Boudreaux who was very interested in making a penny wherever he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go just a wee bit further.

As it happened, he got away with this for some time; but eventually the local Catholic Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings...

Boudreaux put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job.

So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.

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

Boudreaux was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried: "Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke,"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"