The Ants and the Grasshopper
the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected
in the summertime. a grasshopper1, 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
winter."
it is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow
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