The Ant and the Grasshopper: 2
Posted by kathavarta on June 27, 2008
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.”
Moral:
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
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