A
lazy grasshopper laughed at a little ant as she was always busy gathering food.
"Why
are you working so hard?" he asked, "come into the sunshine and
listen to my merry notes."
"But
the ant went on her work. She said" I am lying in a store for the winter.
Sunny days won't last forever."
"Winter
is so far away yet, "laughed the grasshopper back.
And
when the winter came, the ant settled down in her snug house. She had plenty of
food to last the whole winter. The grasshopper had nothing to eat so, he went
to the ant and begged her for a little corn.
"No",
replied the ant, "you laughed at me when I worked. You yourself sang through
the summer. So you had better dance the winter away."
Moral: Idleness is a curse.