THE GIFT

Bennet Cerf relates his touching story about a bus that was bumping along a back road in the South.
In one seat a wispy old man sat holding a bunch of fresh flowers. Across the aisle was a young girl whose eyes came back again and again to the man’s flowers. The time came for the old man to get off. Impulsively he thrust the flowers into the girl’s lap. “I’ll tell her I gave to you.” The girl accepted the flowers, then watched the old man get off the bus and walk through the gate of a small cemetery.