Some ants were spending a beautiful winter’s morning drying grain that they had collected during the summer. A starving grasshopper passed by and begged the ants for some of their food. The ants replied, “Why didn’t you collect any food this past summer?” The grasshopper said, “I was too busy. I passed my time by singing.” The ants replied, “If you were foolish enough to sing all summer long, then you deserve to be hungry in the winter.”