December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
255 pages
5h 55m
English
According to the Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper," a grasshopper chirped and hopped the summer away as a neighboring ant toiled in the field, carrying kernel after heavy corn kernel to its nest. When the grasshopper asked the ant to stop and play, the ant replied, "Winter is coming, and I'm getting ready. I recommend you do the same." The grasshopper just laughed and said, "Why bother about winter? We have plenty of food today." When winter finally came, the grasshopper lay weak with hunger while the ant fed on the corn it had worked so hard to gather. The grasshopper realized too late that he should have prepared for a known risk.
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