This folktale and song describe how a baby sparrow learned to survive after its mother's death through the help of other birds. Once there was a baby sparrow whose mother was killed by a sparrow hawk. The baby sparrow was very sad and missed its mother very much. Not knowing how to survive, the baby sparrow asked other birds for help. In reply, they told it, for example, to collect food on the sunny side of the mountian, to drink water at a place on the shady side of the mountain, to fly with other sparrows rather than alone, and to sleep in the thorns. In this way, the baby sparrow learned to take care of itself.