The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper, also known as The Grasshopper and the Ant or The Grasshopper and the Ants, is a fable attributed to Aesop. It concerns a grasshopper who spent the warm months singing away while the ant (or ants in some editions) worked to store up food for winter. When the winter did come, the famished grasshopper had to beg for food from the ant, who told the grasshopper that since he sang away the summer, he could dance away the winter. The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:
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Fable - Aesop - Grasshopper - Ant - Moral
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