Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

<h2><SPAN name="f2" id="f2"></SPAN><i>The Grasshopper And The Ant.</i></h2> <ANTIMG src="images/2,1.jpg" alt="2,1"><br/> <br/> The Grasshopper, singing<br/> All summer long,<br/> Now found winter stinging,<br/> And ceased in his song.<br/> Not a morsel or crumb in his cupboard--<br/> So he shivered, and ceased in his song.<br/> <br/> Miss Ant was his neighbor;<br/> To her he went:<br/> "O, you're rich from labor,<br/> And I've not a cent.<br/> Lend me food, and I vow I'll return it,<br/> Though at present I have not a cent."<br/> <ANTIMG src="images/2,2.jpg" alt="Lend me food and I vow I'll return it."><br/> The Ant's not a lender,<br/> I must confess.<br/> Her heart's far from tender<br/> To one in distress.<br/> So she said: "Pray, how passed you the summer,<br/> That in winter you come to distress?"<br/> <br/> "I sang through the summer,"<br/> Grasshopper said.<br/> "But now I am glummer<br/> Because I've no bread."<br/> "So you <i>sang!"</i> sneered the Ant. "That relieves me.<br/> Now it's winter--go <i>dance</i> for your bread!"<br/> <ANTIMG src="images/2,3.jpg" alt="Poorhouse."><br/> <ANTIMG src="images/2,4.jpg" alt="He who will not work shall not eat."> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <hr class="narrow"> &nbsp; <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />