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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.
