Aesop Fables » Grasshopper 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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The Donkey asked one of the Grasshoppers what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices.

They replied, “The dew.”

Upon hearing this, the Donkey decided that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.

Moral: Only do what is appropriate for you to do.

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