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  • On a fine summer day,

  • there lived a happy grasshopper on the field.

  • The grasshopper loved to

  • play, sing and dance all the day.

  • What a lovely day ?

  • La la la la la la la

  • I feel like singing a song now.

  • La la la la la la la.

  • As she was singing,

  • an ant passed by.

  • Don't you

  • ever get tired of

  • playing like this ?

  • Who ? Me? No. Of course not.

  • Oh. Don't you ever work at all?

  • Who ? Me ? Of course not.

  • Do you want to come and play with me now?

  • hmm, no no no

  • I have work to do.

  • Come on, let's sing together.

  • No no no

  • I am very busy.

  • Right now, I have lot of work.

  • Work, work, work

  • that's all you think of doing

  • You don't have time to

  • play, sing and move around with people ?

  • and enjoy yourself?

  • No ah I don't.

  • Why are you in such a hurry?

  • I have to take home

  • this kernel of corn.

  • For what now ?

  • I have to store food for the winter.

  • How can you think of winter

  • on such a fine day ?

  • We're enjoying ourselves.

  • Because the winter will be here soon

  • and food will be too hard to find

  • and you should do the same.

  • Mmm, soon you will not have

  • enough food to eat.

  • I don't want to be

  • worrying about winter now.

  • You just go and do your work.

  • Work, work, work

  • And I will just go and play, sing and dance.

  • Please listen to me.

  • Then you will not have anything to eat.

  • I have plenty of food right now

  • And what will you do tomorrow food for eat ?

  • I don't worry about tomorrow at all.

  • But I will do

  • Good bye .

  • And the ant went on its way.

  • La la la la la la la

  • La la la la la la

  • Continuing its work

  • Soon the weather turned cold.

  • All the food lying in the field

  • were covered with

  • a thick blanket of snow.

  • I should have listened to the ant

  • when he told me

  • It's so cold, I can't even play

  • I can't sing anything else also

  • I don't have any food to eat also

  • that ant will definitely help me

  • the grasshopper went o the ant's place.

  • Please give me something to eat

  • Hmmm

  • It's very cold

  • I'm feeling very hungry

  • Why should I help you ?

  • What did you do in all these summer days ?

  • I'd been very playful

  • playing, singing and enjoying myself

  • All summer long

  • I worked hard.

  • Why, you made fun of me.

  • And you sang, played and danced.

  • You should

  • have thought of winter then.

  • Find some where else to sing, hm.

  • There is no warmth or food for you here.

  • Listen here, I can't do anything for you.

  • Goodbye .

  • The ant shut the door, in front of the grasshopper's face.

  • So my dear kids,

  • Here is the moral of the story.

  • That that work to be done at that time

On a fine summer day,

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