经典英语美文欣赏-像他那样的兄弟
A Brother Like That—by Dan Clark
A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a
Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street
urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. "Is this your car,
Mister?" he asked.
Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was
astounded.
You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you nothing? Boy, I
wish" He hesitated.
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he
had a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to
his heels.
"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that."
Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added, "Would
you like to take a ride in my automobile?"
"Oh yes, I'd love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow, said, "Mister,
would you mind driving in front of my house?"
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to
show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was
wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.
He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but
he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him
down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the
car.
"There she is, Buddy, just like I told you up stairs. His brother gave it
to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And some day I'm gonna give
you one just like it then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the
Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you about.
Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car. The
shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began a
memorable holiday ride.
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he had said :"It is
more blessed to give"
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