Aesop Fables » Ant http://www.aesop-fable.com Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:47:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 The Ants and the Grasshopper http://www.aesop-fable.com/grasshopper/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper http://www.aesop-fable.com/grasshopper/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:30:04 +0000 Aesop http://www.aesop-fable.com/grasshopper/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper The Ants were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, dying from hunger, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.

The Ants asked him, “Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?”

He replied, “I didn’t have enough time. 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 winter.”

Moral: Plan ahead or don’t complain if things don’t work out.

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