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    The story describes an interaction between ants and a grasshopper in late autumn. The ants were storing grain for the winter when a hungry grasshopper asked for food. The ants refused to help, pointing out that the grasshopper did not store any food during the summer because he was too busy making music. The ants told the grasshopper to dance instead of providing him food. The moral of the story is that there is a time for work and a time for play.

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    The story describes an interaction between ants and a grasshopper in late autumn. The ants were storing grain for the winter when a hungry grasshopper asked for food. The ants refused to help, pointing out that the grasshopper did not store any food during the summer because he was too busy making music. The ants told the grasshopper to dance instead of providing him food. The moral of the story is that there is a time for work and a time for play.

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    Library of Congress Aesop Fables

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    The story describes an interaction between ants and a grasshopper in late autumn. The ants were storing grain for the winter when a hungry grasshopper asked for food. The ants refused to help, pointing out that the grasshopper did not store any food during the summer because he was too busy making music. The ants told the grasshopper to dance instead of providing him food. The moral of the story is that there is a time for work and a time for play.

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    2/5/23, 11:29 AM Library of Congress Aesop Fables

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    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.

    "What!" cried the Ants in surprise,


    "haven't you stored anything away for the
    winter? What in the world were you doing
    all last summer?"

    "I didn't have time to store up any


    food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so
    busy making music that before I knew it
    the summer was gone."
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    2/5/23, 11:29 AM Library of Congress Aesop Fables

    The Ants shrugged their shoulders in


    disgust.

    "Making music, were you?" they


    cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they
    turned their backs on the Grasshopper and
    went on with their work.

    There's a time for work and a time for play.

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