A stranger
2024-03-13 13:22:55BiancaWooden
瘋狂英語(yǔ)·讀寫(xiě)版 2024年1期
Bianca Wooden
A 14?year?old boy was on a fishingtrip with his family when he caught somethingunexpected： a stranger's wallet. Uponlooking inside， Connor Halsa was evenmore surprised to find that it wasn't empty.Although waterlogged， the wallet was stillholding some personal items and a lot ofcash.“
“I thought I had a big fish，” the teensaid.“ My cousin Brandon opened the wallet，said there was some money in it andshowed it to everyone， and then we tookthe money out and placed it on the dashboardto let it dry off.”
As it turned out， there was about$2000 in the wallet. Connor and his fatherboth agreed that the only course of actionwas to try to find the owner and return themoney.“ My dad said we should give it tothe person， so I told him we should， too，”Connor said.
Thankfully， there was also a businesscard with the owner's name on it： Jim Denney，a farmer from Iowa. He'd been fishingon the very same lake last year when thewallet fell out of his pocket without himnoticing.
Jim was both shocked and gratefulwhen Connor and his family contacted him.He never imagined he'd see that wallet orits contents again. When the farmer arrivedin Minnesota to pick up his belongings， hetried to give the teenager reward money.However， the boy couldn't be persuaded totake it. This impressed Jim even more. Hetook the family out to have dinner andgifted the young man a personalized cooler.
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Who was the owner of the wallet that Connor found while fishing？
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