The Ants and the Grasshopper
The ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected
in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and
earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, "Why did
you not treasure up food during the summer?' He replied, "I had not leisure
enough. I passed the days in singing." They then said in derision: "If
you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless
to bed in the
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