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Let's Understand

Helping others is a good thing. It makes you as well as them happy.

For example, we can help our mother at home by keeping our

room clean. We can help our pets by giving them food on time.

We can help the elderly in our family. This shows that we are good

people and it also makes us feel good about ourselves.

Let’s read a story about helping others.
Let’s read a story about helping others.

Story
Story

The Fruit Vendor
The Fruit Vendor

A man went to a fruit vendor sitting on his cart.
A man went to a fruit vendor sitting on his cart.
“How much do these apples cost?” he asked.
“How much do these apples cost?” he asked.

“They are Rs. 100 for a kilo,” the vendor replied.
“They are Rs. 100 for a kilo,” the vendor replied.
After some time, a woman came to the same vendor.
After some time, a woman came to the same vendor.

She asked the same question.
She asked the same question.
“The apples are Rs. 50 for a kilo,” the vendor said.
“The apples are Rs. 50 for a kilo,” the vendor said.
The woman happily took some apples home.
The woman happily took some apples home.

The
The man who had come to buy fruits said, “What was that? man who had come to buy fruits said, “What was that?
Are you trying to cheat me?”
Are you trying to cheat me?”
“No sir! That lady is very lady is very
“No sir! That
poor.
poor. But she is too But she is too
proud
proud to take my help. to take my help.
So I give her fruits at a
So I give her fruits at a
low
low price. That way she price. That way she
can
can buy the apples and buy the apples and
be happy.”
be happy.”

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