“Winter is a long way off,” the grasshopper said. “I’d rather
.”
“You might be sorry when ,”
the ant warned. “You should plan for .”
But the grasshopper just laughed and
. He jumped over
and hopped across , play-
ing, singing, and.
The little ant shook her head and went back to work. She
and finally
.
The grasshopper saw the ant working nearly every day. And every
day he just. Soon it began
to grow cold. The wind.
The snow. And the grass-
hopper understood. He
made his way to the ant colony and called out, “
.” But the ants could not hear him. They
, and the poor
grasshopper.
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