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The Ants And The Grasshopper

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Title:     The Ants And The Grasshopper
Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)]

The Ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in the summer time. 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; I passed the days in singing." They then said: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

Idleness brings want.


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Aesop's Fable: The Ants And The Grasshopper

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