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The Ant and The Grasshopper. A Grasshopper frolicked while an Ant stored food for the winter. When winter came the Ant was comfortable; the Grasshopper not so. Prepare for the future.
The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.
The Ants & the Grasshopper. 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.
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?’.
The Ant and the Grasshopper, also known as The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants) is one of the most famous of Aesop's Fables. This fable's moral lesson emphasizes the twin values of hard work and planning for the future.
1. Can the grasshopper play any musical instrument? 2. What two kinds of food did the ant carry to the anthill? 3. In what season did the ant and grasshopper first meet? 4. Why does the ant save food in the summer? 5. What do you think happened to the grasshopper at the end of the story?
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Once upon a time, in a field, there lived an ant and a grasshopper. The ant worked hard all summer, storing food for the winter. She would carry grains of wheat and corn to her nest every day. The grasshopper, on the other hand, loved to sing and dance all day long. He would play his fiddle and hop around in the sunshine.