What will you do when you want to have something but without money?
Jack was a 16-year-old boy,1wanted to have a nice bike. Last summer holiday, he asked his parents2the money and they said he must get it by3. But how could he get it?
On his way home one day, he think about this. Not many people wanted to ask children to work for them. Maybe he could sweep away snow for the neighbors.4, it was not winter. He had to wait a long time for that. Grass couldn't be cut for their gardens, because he was not5to do such work.
Just at the moment, he saw Tom, one of his classmates, selling books in a bookshop.
"I could do that," he thought. He asked Tom6questions. He learned that7took Tom about three hours a day to do the job and he could get twenty dollars each week. And Tom gave him the telephone number of the bookshop manager.
Jack almost flew home. "Mum, I have8good news to tell you," Jack said. After he told his mother9he thought, she said, "I think it's a good idea."
"I10the manager tomorrow," said Jack. "After all, I'm going to be a businessman." Jack's mother looked happily at him and smiled.
