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| The Ant and the Grasshopper - a fable for our time |
One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were
bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up
during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came
up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise,
"haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were
you doing all last summer?"
"I didn't have time to store up any food,"
whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it
the summer was gone."
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried.
"Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the
Grasshopper and went on with their work.
There's a time for work and a time for play.
PLAYTIME IS OVER.