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The Ant and the Grasshopper (A Fable)


Narrator: One day in the summer, an ant was gathering provisions for the winter. Ant: I am working so hard but I can't stop. I will be happy this winter though.

Grasshopper: Fiddle-dee fiddle-dee hum dum dee dee hum hum dee dee. Ant, why are you working? Come and sing with me.



Ant: You must gather food or in the winter you will starve.

Grasshopper: Hum dee dum hum fiddle-dee-dee hum dee.



Narrator: The grasshopper wouldn't listen to the ant and when winter came...

Grasshopper: Brrrrrrr. Brrrrrr. Ant, please give me a bite to eat. I am famished.



Ant: If you would have listened to me and gathered food instead of singing, you wouldn't be knocking on my door.

Grasshopper: Brrrr. Please Brrrrrrrr.

Ant: I hope you learn a lesson to work and then sing. Good-bye!

Narrator: The next summer, the grasshopper took the ant's advice and gathered all he needed. Then, when the ant and the grasshopper were done, they sang and danced together.


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