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16.The Ants and the Grasshopper

THE ANTS were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain they had gathered in the summertime. A grasshopper that was at the brink of starving with hunger passed by and begged for a little food. The ants asked him,

“Why didn’t you treasure up food during the summer?”

The grasshopper replied, “I didn’t have enough leisure for it. I passed the days in singing.”

They said, again, “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supper less to bed in the winter.”

Beset with difficulties, many stop breathing freely.

The superior one tries to prepare for hard times later on, as he can perceive them in the coming.

IT IS BEST TO PREPARE FOR THE DAYS OF NECESSITY.