The Ants were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain, which they had collected in the summertime.
A Grasshopper, who was so hungry that he was starving, passed by and begged for a little food.
The Ants asked him, “Why did you not store up food during the summer when there was plenty around?”
The Grasshopper replied, “I didn’t have the time. The weather was so lovely that I spent all the days singing.”
The Ants then said in anger: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”