Once there was a young girl called priya. She lived with her mother. Her father was in the army. When Priya was a baby, her father left to fight in a war.
He never came back. So, they thought he was dead.
Every morning priya would cook lunch for her mother and take it to her at noon.
She worked in a paddy field far away.
One day Priya and her friends were taking lunch for their parents in the paddy field. On the way, they saw a sick man.
He was lying by the footpath.. When he saw Priya and her friends, the man said, "Please give me something
to eat. I am very sick and hungry." Priya felt sorry for him. She gave the sick man her mother's lunch and water.
When she reached the paddy field her mother was hungry. She was waiting for Priya to bring her lunch.
When Avi told her mother that she had no lunch for her, she was very angry. But Priya told her mother that she had given it to someone sick." Priya's mother was pleased on hearing that. She said that Priya had done the right thing.
That evening when Priya and her mother returned home, the same sick man was sitting by their doorstep.
Priya's mother shouted with joy when she saw this man. She ran and hugged him.
Priya watched them with surprise. She did not know how her mother knew this man.
But her mother turned to Priya and said, "Priya, this is your father, he has returned to us at last." After this, priya's father told her mother how priya had saved his life.
He said he would have died of hunger on his way home, if Priya had not helped him. He said he was very happy and proud of what Avi had done. They lived happily ever after.