A Brother Like That
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 said.
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 car?"
"Oh yes, Id love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned 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 upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day Im gonna give you one just like it . . . then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Christmas windows that Ive 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 said: "It is more blessed to give . . . "
内容：
哥哥的心愿
圣诞节时,保罗的哥哥送他一辆新车.圣诞节当天,保罗离开办公室时,一个男孩绕着那辆闪闪发亮的新车,十分赞叹地问：
"先生,这是你的车?"
保罗点点头："这是我哥哥送给我的圣诞节礼物."男孩满脸惊讶,支支吾吾地说："你是说这是你哥送的礼物,没花你一分钱?天哪,我真希望也能……"
保罗当然知道男孩他真想希望什么.他希望能有一个象那样的哥哥.但是小男孩接下来说的话却完全出乎了保罗的意料.
"我希望自己能成为送车给弟弟的哥哥."男孩继续说.
保罗惊愕地看着那男孩,冲口而出地说："你要不要坐我的车去兜风?"
"哦,当然好了,我太想坐了!"
车开了一小段路后,那孩子转过头来,眼睛闪闪发亮,对我说："先生,你能不能把车子开到我家门前?"
保罗微笑,他知道孩子想干什么.那男孩必定是要向邻居炫耀,让大家知道他坐了一部大轿车回家.但是这次保罗又猜错了."你能不能把车子停在那两个台阶前?"男孩要求道.
男孩跑上了阶梯,过了一会儿保罗听到他回来了,但动作似乎有些缓慢.原来把他跛脚的弟弟带出来了,将他安置在第一个台阶上,紧紧地抱着他,指着那辆新车.
只听那男孩告诉弟弟："你看,这就是我刚才在楼上对你说的那辆新车.这是保罗他哥哥送给他的哦!将来我也会送给你一辆像这样的车,到那时候你就能自己去看那些在圣诞节时,挂窗口上的漂亮饰品了,就象我告诉过你的那样."
保罗走下车子,把跛脚男孩抱到车子的前座.兴奋得满眼放光的哥哥也爬上车子,坐在弟弟的身旁.就这样他们三人开始一次令人难忘的假日兜风.
那个圣诞夜,保罗才真正体会主耶稣所说的"施比受更有福"的道理.
可以把
A(衣衫褴褛） B（衣着光鲜） C小花 D小草 E椅子 F新闻记者
B坐在E上吃东西,A一乞丐上前
A：先生,先生,请给我些面包,谢谢,我饿得不行了.
B：（厌恶）让开,让开.（然后便起身离开,这时他的钱包掉到E上头了）
A：先生,先生（A看见后,立即拾起,追上了走远的B）
B：让开,让开啊,我没吃的了,也没钱了（看也不看A,仍自顾自地走了）
C：他真愚蠢啊
D：是啊是啊（D点头附和）
A：可……先生……您听我说……（仍拉着B衣服的后摆）
B：挖,你这人怎么这么讨厌!（还是没有回头看A一眼）
C：椅子啊,你会不会觉得刚刚坐在你身上的人特愚蠢?
E：唉,人总是这么愚蠢啊~~~~
D：是啊是啊
与此同时A与B还在纠缠,这时E终于隐忍不住爆发了.
E：先生!你的钱包丢了!你怎么这么傻啊.
A与B同时回头,看见了那会说话的椅子E,吓昏过去了.这一幕恰巧被经过的F看见了.于是F就报道了这一事件.
F：大家好,我是新闻记者F,今天我看见了一个奇异的现象,一个椅子说话了,两个人被吓昏了,下面我将采访一下被吓昏的两个人.
B：哦,上帝,哦,妈妈.
F：这个人傻了,我们不鸟他了,下面我采访一下另一个人吧,请问你为什么不告诉他,他的钱包丢了?
A：对不起,我不知道“钱包”这个单词怎么讲……
F：通过这一事件,我们可以认识到,掌握一门外语的重要性,以及金钱给人类带来的影响.是吗,椅子?
E：是啊,是啊（E傻傻地拼命点头）
C：唉,人可真愚蠢,椅子也被他们弄傻了.
D：谁让这是一个童话呢……
A:sir,sir,please give me a piece of bread.thank you,sir.I’m hungry to die.
B:get away,get away,dirty man.
A:sir,sir!
B:run away,please run away.I have no food,and I don’t have money,either.
C:hey,xiao D,he is so foolish,isn’t he?
D:yes,yes.
A:but.sir.please listen to me.
B:wa,why are you so disgusting!
C:hey,chair,do you feel the man sat on you a moment ago is very stupid.
E:ai,pretty flower,do you know,men are always very silly.
D:yes,yes!
E:sir!you lost your wallet!can’t you be more clever?
F:good morning,everybody.I’m a jonrnist F. Today I saw a very weird thing--a chair open her mouth,and two men are frightened to faint.now,I will intenview the two nozzy man.
B:wo,my god,wo,my,mum.
F:I’m sorry to tell you this man has been mad.we needn’t take notice of him.let me interview the other man,hello,man,can you tell men why didn’t you tell him he lost his wallet?
A:I’m sorry,I don’t know how to speak "钱包" in english.
F:dear audience,through this thing we can learn that how improtant it is to mastery a foreign language,and how lagre the money affect us.is that all right,chair?
E:yes,yes.
C:ai,men is so silly.
D:don’t believe us,it is just a fairly tale.