One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no money to get food for his large family. "You look 1. Why don't you work?" I asked. "Simply because I cannot get work, sir." "If I give you work, what pay do you want?" "As long as I can get bread for my family sir." he answered.
I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. "OK. I'll give you one pound an hour, if you 2 a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping." "Thank you, sir. I will."
I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my 3. I never thought he would do he had said.
When I came back five hours later, I saw him still 4 with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him five pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had 5 to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask them for work 6.
Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the 7. I did.
Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he 8 that he was the brick man and had his own business now. "You know. I still keep that brick and always consider it as the most 9 thing I have as it has brought me luck and success."
In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness(坚定) in doing 10 a very little thing.
