[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-92439-en":3,"doc-seo-92439-105":28,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":89},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":4,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":20,"language":21,"language_code":22,"site_id":23,"html_lang":22,"table_of_contents":24,"faqs":25,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":26,"read_time":27},92439,2336464648322,"Aria","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/2200025388227c56fec?_k=1778556882303663488",1,"Story & Novel","The Sparrow and The Fruit - Story","A sparrow named Gubbi goes to the market and returns with a juicy guava, only for it to slip from her beak and fall into a thorny thicket. Determined to recover her fruit, she asks a series of nearby helpers—a boy, a farmer, a cow, a fisherman, and a rat—to solve the problem, offering increasingly specific demands. Each request is refused, showing persistence, frustration, and the escalating lengths of her quest to get back what she lost.","The Sparrow and The Fruit  \nAuthor: Venkatramana Gowda  \nIllustrator: Padmanabh  \nTranslator: Divaspathy Hegde  \nEnglish Story Book  \nThe Sparrow and The Fruit  \nAuthor: Venkatramana Gowda Illustrator: Padmanabh Translator: Divaspathy Hegde Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger Pratham Books  \nEnglish  \nThe Sparrow and The Fruit Author: Venkatramana Gowda  \nIllustrator: Padmanabh  \nTranslator: Divaspathy Hegde  \nCopyright © 2004, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThere was once a sparrow called Gubbi. One day, Gubbi went off to the market and bought herself a nice juicy guava. On the way back, the guava slipped from Gubbi’s beak and fell into a clump of thorns. Gubbi couldn’t bear the thought of losing her fruit. She decided she would get it back at any cost.  \nFirst she went to a boy working nearby.  \n“Little boy, little boy, please get my guava back for me,” she begged.“Can’t do it,” replied the boy.“Go away!”  \nGubbi was furious. She went straight to the farmer. She said,“I dropped my fruit in aclump of thorns . I asked the boy to help me but he didn’t. Now I want you to give him a good beating.”  \n“Won’t do it,” said the farmer .“Go away!”  \nGubbi went straight to a cow that was grazing in the farmer’s pasture. She said,“I dropped my fruit in a clump of thorns. I asked the boy to help me but he didn’t. I asked the farmer to give the boy a beating but he didn’t. Now I want you to go and eat up the farmer’s crops .”  \n“Can’t do it,” said the cow, and turned her head away.  \nGubbi flew straight to the fisherman . She said,“I dropped my fruit in a clump of thorns. The boy did not help me, the farmer did not help me, and the cow did not help me . Now I want you to whip the cow .”  \n“Won’t do it,” said the fisherman and cast his net again.  \nGubbi went straight to the rat. She said,“I dropped my fruit in a clump of thorns . The boy did not help me, the farmer did not help me, the cow did not help me, and the fisherman did not help me . Now I want you to chew up the fisherman’s net.”  \n“Can’t do it,” said the rat, and scurried away.","cbCaiaAoS9tWJIm7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaAoS9tWJIm7","pdf",20782383,18,"English","en",105,"# The Sparrow and The Fruit\n## Gubbi’s guava is lost in thorns\n## Requests to helpers are refused","[{\"question\":\"What happens to Gubbi’s guava after she buys it at the market?\",\"answer\":\"On the way back, the guava slips from her beak and falls into a clump of thorns.\"},{\"question\":\"Who does Gubbi ask for help to get the fruit back?\",\"answer\":\"She asks a boy, then a farmer, then a cow, then a fisherman, and finally a rat.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the helpers respond to Gubbi’s requests?\",\"answer\":\"Each helper refuses her demands and turns her away, causing Gubbi to escalate her requests.\"}]",1784316578,28,{"code":4,"msg":29,"data":30},"ok",{"site_id":23,"language":22,"slug":31,"title":13,"keywords":32,"description":14,"schema_data":33,"social_meta":84,"head_meta":86,"extra_data":88,"updated_unix":26},"the-sparrow-and-the-fruit-story","",{"@graph":34,"@context":83},[35,52,66],{"@type":36,"itemListElement":37},"BreadcrumbList",[38,42,46,49],{"item":39,"name":40,"@type":41,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":43,"name":44,"@type":41,"position":45},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":41,"position":48},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":41,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-sparrow-and-the-fruit-story/92439/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":22,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":60,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":61,"interactionStatistic":62},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":39,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-17",true,{"@type":63,"interactionType":64,"userInteractionCount":4},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":65},"ViewAction",{"@type":67,"mainEntity":68},"FAQPage",[69,75,79],{"name":70,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":72},"What happens to Gubbi’s guava after she buys it at the market?","Question",{"text":73,"@type":74},"On the way back, the guava slips from her beak and falls into a clump of thorns.","Answer",{"name":76,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":77},"Who does Gubbi ask for help to get the fruit back?",{"text":78,"@type":74},"She asks a boy, then a farmer, then a cow, then a fisherman, and finally a rat.",{"name":80,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":81},"How do the helpers respond to Gubbi’s requests?",{"text":82,"@type":74},"Each helper refuses her demands and turns her away, causing Gubbi to escalate her requests.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":85,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":87,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":23},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":90},[91,94,98,102,107,112,117,122,127,130,134],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":93},90,"story-novel",{"id":45,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":95,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":97},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":99,"show_sort_weight":100,"slug":101},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":103,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":104,"show_sort_weight":105,"slug":106},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":108,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":109,"show_sort_weight":110,"slug":111},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":113,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":114,"show_sort_weight":115,"slug":116},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":118,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":119,"show_sort_weight":120,"slug":121},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":126},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":129},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":131,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":132,"show_sort_weight":131,"slug":133},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":135,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":136,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":137},19,"General","general"]