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The Ants and the Grasshopper
The Ants were spending a fine winter's
day drying grain collected in the summertime. 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 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."
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