The Ants and the Grasshopper:
On a cold, frosty day the ants began dragging
out some of the grain they had stored during the summer and began drying it. A
grasshopper, half dead with hunger, came by and asked the ants for a morsel to
save his life.
out some of the grain they had stored during the summer and began drying it. A
grasshopper, half dead with hunger, came by and asked the ants for a morsel to
save his life.
“What did you do this past summer?” responded
the ants.
the ants.
“Oh,” said the grasshopper, “I kept myself
busy by singing all day long and all night, too.”
busy by singing all day long and all night, too.”
“Well then,” remarked the ants, as they
laughed and shut their storehouse, “since you kept yourself busy by singing all
summer, you can do the same by dancing all winter.”
laughed and shut their storehouse, “since you kept yourself busy by singing all
summer, you can do the same by dancing all winter.”
And the moral of the story is: Idleness
brings want.
brings want.
I so enjoyed reading Aesop’s humorous cautionary
tales as a child. I’ve have always been fascinated by how all the animal characters
would assume human characteristics.
tales as a child. I’ve have always been fascinated by how all the animal characters
would assume human characteristics.
Do you remember your favorite fables? The hare
and the tortoise, the fox and the grapes, the country mouse and the town mouse…just
to name a few.
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