Three little boys were looking for a summer job. Their preacher needed some people to go around and sell Bibles. So the preacher hired two boys without even thinking twice. But he was hesitant about hiring the third boy because he suffered from a speech impediment.

So after the first days of work they all met back at the church. The preacher looked at the first boy and asked him, “How many Bibles did you sell?”

The boy stood up and said, “35.”

“Is that all you sold?” the preacher asked. He looked at the second boy and asked him the same thing.

The boy said, “75.” “That is good,” the preacher replied.

He didn’t want to ask the third boy but did.

The boy with the speech impediment said, “I-I-I s-s-sold 175.”

The preacher was amazed and asked the boy how he sold all of the Bibles. He said, “I-I-I t-t-told them to b-b-buy t-t-them or I will r-r-read it to t-t-them.”



*preacher, 전도사, 목사; hesitant, 망설이는, 주저하는; suffer from, …병을 앓다 (from 대신 for나 with가 수반되기도 함); speech impediment, 언어장애.