WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.940 Once upon a time, there was a grasshopper. 00:00:02.940 --> 00:00:07.040 All through the summer when the weather was warm and food was plentiful, 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.560 he loved to make music and leap and dance in the long grass. 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.690 Sometimes he would meet the ants. 00:00:13.690 --> 00:00:16.390 They were always scuttling this way and that way, 00:00:16.390 --> 00:00:20.990 gathering food and carrying it to the storehouses in their anthills. 00:00:20.990 --> 00:00:25.820 They hardly seemed to notice the sunshine and the flowery fields. 00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:28.220 ‘What are you doing my friends?’ he would say. 00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:29.370 ‘We are working. 00:00:29.370 --> 00:00:32.710 Soon the winter will come and food will be scarce.’ 00:00:32.710 --> 00:00:34.960 ‘But look! The sun is shining. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.330 The summer is all around us. 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:37.250 Come and join me. 00:00:37.250 --> 00:00:39.290 Let’s sing, let’s dance.’ 00:00:39.290 --> 00:00:41.430 The ants took no notice. 00:00:41.430 --> 00:00:46.070 They put their heads down and lifted their heavy loads. 00:00:46.070 --> 00:00:53.120 Six months later the world was white with snow and a bitter wind blew across the fields. 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:56.420 The ants in their anthill were nibbling at their stores. 00:00:56.420 --> 00:00:58.340 Suddenly they heard a voice. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:01.760 ‘My friends, could you spare me a bite of food? 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:05.500 I’m freezing cold and starving with hunger.’ 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:07.430 It was the poor grasshopper. 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:09.920 He was ragged and shivering. 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:11.740 The ants shook their heads. 00:01:11.740 --> 00:01:16.700 ‘If you’d set aside your song and dance and made a store when there was food in plenty, 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:19.210 you wouldn’t be begging now.’ 00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:20.820 The grasshopper replied, 00:01:20.820 --> 00:01:25.550 ‘But then I wouldn’t have enjoyed the lovely months of summer.’ 00:01:25.550 --> 00:01:28.090 And off he went into the bitter cold, 00:01:28.090 --> 00:01:31.940 laid down and died in his rags.