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The Ants and the Grasshopper
perishing
famine
treasure
leisure
derision
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The Ants were busy drying their wet grain in the winter sun.
2
A Grasshopper, perishing from the cold, walked by.
3
He was suffering from severe famine and begged for food.
4
The Ants asked him what he did all summer.
5
Why did you not treasure up food for the winter?
6
The Grasshopper replied that he did not have enough leisure.
7
I passed the warm days in singing, he explained.
8
The Ants laughed at him in derision.
9
If you sang all summer, you can dance supperless in winter.
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