Tuesday 18 March 2014

"The Ants and the Grasshopper" by Aesop (in English)




    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."


            It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow

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