{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes014.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes014.htm","text":"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?' He replied, \"I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing.\" They then said in derision: \"If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.\"","title":"The Ants and the Grasshopper","type":"page"}