A man 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 shining 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 this 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 with his eyes aglow and 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 handicapped 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 someday I'm gonna give you one
just like it... and 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 into 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 it meant when people said: "It's more
blessed to give..."
- Source Unknown
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