We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store.11we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than12and a sale.
One lesson stands out in my13. It was shortly before Christmas. I was in eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was14a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed （磨破）and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me — too poor to15to buy anything. He looked16the toy section, picked up this item and17 , and carefully put them18in their place.
Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes19and the dimple（酒窝）in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas _20____ to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any . Dad told him to take his21and look around. He did.
After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy22 , walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”
“How much you got?” Dad asked.
The little boy held out his hand and23it. His hand was creased(起皱) with24lines of dirt from holding his25too tightly. In his hand26two dimes, a nickel and two pennies—27 cents. The price on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98.
“That’ll just27it,” Dad said as he28the sale. Dad’s reply still29in my ears. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a happy child with a30.
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