The Secret

神秘的鳥籠

I cannot honestly say that there was ever a time that I went hungry when I lived in that orphanage in 1)Jacksonville, Florida. I mean, I wish there had been more to eat at times, and there were times when my stomach sure growled a lot at nighttime.

老實說，我在佛羅里達州杰克遜維爾市那家孤兒院期間，真沒挨過餓。其實，有些時候，我倒也想過，要是有更多東西吃就好了，也有那么一些夜晚，我的肚子的確會咕咕叫得厲害。

One day our second grade class at Spring Park School was released early because of a 2)fire drill. As I walked back to the orphanage, about a block away from the school, I saw a woman standing on her front lawn eating a sandwich. I stopped and stood there looking at her.

有一天，因為要防火演習，我們這些源泉公園學校二年級的學生很早就放學了。在走回孤兒院的路上，大概離學校一個街區(qū)那么遠的地方，我看見一位太太正站在她家前面的那塊草地上吃三明治，我停下腳步，站在那里看著她。

蓋著布的鳥籠 The Secret“Can I help you?” she asked me.

“Just looking at that sandwich,” I replied.

“Would you like a sandwich?” she asked me.

“Yes, Ma’am. I guess,” I said.

She walked back into her house and within a minute had come back out holding a sandwich in her hand.

“Here,” she said, handing me the sandwich.

I raised the sandwich to my mouth and I took a bite.

I could feel my eyes roll back into my head as I tasted the wonderful treat.

“This is very good. What is it?” I asked her.

“It is a meat sandwich,” she told me.

“We don’t get much meat at the Children’s Home Orphanage,” I told her.

“If you ever get hungry for meat you can come by here,” she told me, as she walked back into her house and closed the door.

I slowly walked back to the orphanage eating the sandwich and making sure that my mouth was clean so that no one would know that I had eaten a meat thing.