Calico Illustrated Classics: Aesop's Fables

Calico Illustrated Classics: Aesop's Fables — page 3
I must help my sisters put away food for the winter the ant said as she hurried along At that the grasshopper laughed and laughed Winter was months and months away How silly to let the beautiful summer pass without leaping and hopping and playing Every day the grasshopper would see the ant carrying corn and seeds and bits of crust dropped by people It never looked like something the grasshopper would enjoy at all Instead he danced the days away nibbling grass whenever he wanted One day he was jumping and leaping in the crispy brown leaves when something white and wet fell right on his head Snow Winter is here the grasshopper gasped I must gather He hopped and leaped and spun but he could fi nd no green grass under the snow Finally the grasshopper crawled into a crack in a log shivering The ant was right he chattered Save in the good times to help in the bad 8