A young boy was playing a ball in the street.He threw it hard, and it broke the window of a house and fell inside.A woman came to the window and shouted at the boy.The boy ran away.But he still wanted his ball back.A few minutes later he came back and knocked at the door and said, “My father’s going to come and mend your windows very soon.”
In a moment, a man came to the door with tools(工具)in his hand, so the woman let the boy take his ball away.
When the man finished mending the window, he said to the woman, “Please give me ten dollars(美元).”
“But aren’t you the father of the boy?” The woman asked.“No,” he answered, “Aren’t you his mother?”