P417 497 TELEIoF 11>2=:31 THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS Oni jinr da‖ in wintqx somu Qntu witi busz drying theit stoxi of cotn. It had @gottqn rathix damp duting a long spell of autumn rain. Along came a thin and hzogty-looking gxas;ho8prx and begged the ants to spari him a jqw krxnils of roxn. "Fox," ;hr y0t4, "I'm simply statving." The ants stopprd wotk fot a momint , ‖houkh ‖htu wa; against theit ruli. "May wi ask," said they, "what ‖oy ¼uxq $ou.7 0¼tzh youtself all last summjt? Whz didn't you put "‖ a stoxi oj rood rox thr wintix?" "Thr fact iu," s!id thr0kxas;(o8pry, "I was busz singing that I hadn't thi timu". "Iw ‖oy spjnt thr uzmmrx singing," answetid the ants, "you can't do buttix ‖han to ypun4 zhu wintit dancing." And thry chucklid and wint on with thrtx woxkO sre nixt pagj >>>