In summer everything was bright and beautiful. Food was plentiful. A Grasshopper ate to its heart's content and sang merrily. He saw ants collecting and carrying food. He laughed at them. He said to the ant who was his friend, "How greedy you are! You are working when it is the time for joy. What a pity!" The ant said, "My dear friend, we are storing food for the next winter."

After summer, came winter. The brightness of summer was gone. Food was getting scarce. ‘The grasshopper found it difficult to get food for himself. And at last there was a time for him to starve.

So one day the grasshopper knocked on the door of his friend, the ant. He requested her to give him something to eat. The ant said, "You spent the summer singing merrily. You spent the rainy season dancing and moving. I won't give anything to a lazy creature like you." And she shut her door on his face. Poor grasshopper understood that being lazy during working time caused his today's distress.