Her mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, "When I was a small girl like you, Lucy, I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and jam.
Lucy looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and then said to her kindly, "Aren't you pleased that you've come to live with us now?"
壹位年輕的母親認為,世界上還有許多受饑餓的人,浪費食物真不應該。有天晚上,在安排幼小的女兒睡覺之前,她給女兒餵夜宵。她先給她壹片新鮮的黑面包和黃油,但孩子說她不喜歡這樣吃。她還要壹些果醬塗在面包上。
母親看了女兒幾秒鐘,隨即說道,“露茜,當我象妳壹樣小的時候,總是吃面包加黃油,或者面包加果醬,從來沒有面包既加黃油又加果醬。”
露茜看了母親壹會兒,眼中露出憐憫的神情,然後她柔聲說:“您現在能跟我們生活在壹起難道不感到高興嗎?”