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 AN APPLE FOR NOTHING

Hello Viewers!!! Today I have brought to you all a story of the moral give to a person in need or else you will face a bad future. Hope you all understand the moral after reading the entire story. So, let's begin.

Once upon a time, there lived a farmer named Gopi. He was a good and hardworking farmer but, the bad part was that he was a miser. He worked very hard and grew a lot of fresh and nice apples. He put them in his cart and took them to the market to sell.
There was a poor old man sitting in the market square. He looked famished. He asked Gopi, 'O Farmer! Will you give me one of your sweet and fresh apple? I'm starving and I haven't eaten anything since from one day.'
'No,' said Gopi.
'But I am starving and I haven't eaten in more than a day. You have so many apples in your cart. Will, you not give me one?' asked the old man, unfazed.
'Of course not! I have worked really hard to grow and nurture each one for sale. Go ask someone else.'
' Please, farmer!'
'Go away, old man!' snapped Gopi.
'Give me one apple and you will have my blessings.'
'I don't need your blessings, old man. I need money,' said Gopi harshly.
The old man smiled at him. He said, 'Everyone needs blessings, child.'
'Blessings will not bring me profit,' said Gopi and began to argue with him.
A kind, compassionate woman who was passing buy bought one apple and gave it to the old man.
Before the old man started to eat, he made an announcement in the whole market square, 'I invite all of you to come here and eat as many apples you want.'
People chuckled. What was this poor old man talking about? Haaaaah
Gopi laughed at him. 'If you had anything to eat of give, you would not have begged me for an apple.' 'Wait. Let me eat.'
The old man finished the apple, took the seeds and planted them in a pit nearby and covered it with mud. He asked someone for water and someone in the market square gave him a pot of water. He poured it on the apple seeds.
Within a few seconds, a sapling appeared.
Within a few minutes, it became a tree.
Within a half-hour, red and tempting apples were hanging from the tree. By then, a big crowd had gathered around the old man.
The old man announced, 'Come, eat the apples from the tree.'
People were pleasantly surprised to get a free apple. Many took one and went their ways while eating it. Gopi also took one apple from the tree and placed it in his pocket, wondering what he has just seen.
The old man cut the tree with his axe and began to get ready to leave the market with the pieces of wood on his shoulders.
Gopi was frustrated. He thought,Why should I work so hard for a cart of apples? This old man distributed more than a cart of apples to everyone in less than an hour. I must learn this trick from him so that I can also grow fruits and become rich quickly.
He saw the old man leaving the market.
Gopi turned to his cart, asked the mango vendor standing next to him to look after his apples, and turned towards the direction of the old man. But there was no sign of the old man, the tree, its leaves or the axe.
Gopi wondered,Did I see what I did? Was it really true or perhaps just my imagination? He went back to his cart-his apples had disappeared too! Gopi scratched his head. Absent-mindedly, he put his hand in one of his pockets. He found and apples-the one that he had taken from the old man's tree. He ate it-it tasted the same ones he had grown in his garden.
Oh no! the apples that had been distributed were his! The old man had created an illusion! It was magic! A great magician had cheated him.
I wish I had just given him one apple in the beginning when he had asked for it. Then I might have saved my entire cart of apples. I have been penny-wise and pound-foolish, thought Gopi.

Hope you all liked the story of Gopi and the old man and understood its moral. This was all for today's blog and I will be back with another amazing blog like this, Thank You and Bye for now Viewers!!!!.

By

 A ASHRITHA

Grade 6C

Orchids The International School Vivekananda.