One day, I happened to (碰巧) talk to a stranger (陌生人，异乡人) on the bus. When he found (发现，找到，创办)out that I was from Chicago, he told me that one of his good friends lived there and he wanted to know if I happened to know him. At first I wanted to say that it was foolish (愚蠢的，可笑的) to think that I could possibly meet his friend since there were millions of people in Chicago. But, instead, I just smiled and said that Chicago was a very big city. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me all about his friend. He told me that his friend was an excellent (优秀的) tennis player (运动员) , and that he even had his own tennis court (网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, but that he only knew two people in the country had their own tennis courts. And his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several people like that, for example, my brother and my next- door neighbour (邻居，邻接). I told him that my brother was a doctor and he lived in California. Then he asked where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that last year his friend spent the summer in Sacramento and lived next door to a doctor. The doctor had a tennis court (法院，院子), I said that my next-door neighbour went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother’s. For a moment, we looked at each other, but we did not say anything. "Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Little Wood" I asked finally (最终). He laughed and said, "Would your brother’s name happen to be Ray Hunter" It was my turn to laugh. The writer’s brother was a