Fable -The REAL Story of the Ant and the Grasshopper

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The REAL Story of the Ant and the Grasshopper Famous storyteller, Aesop, did not always tell things as they really were. For instance, his tale about the ants and the grasshopper missed the mark. Here is the real story - Grasshopper had thousands and thousands of brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and more to come at egg-hatching time. Grasshopper was kept hopping from flower to bush to bunches of green grass in his never-ending hustle just trying to keep his relatives in food. All of that chirping noise Aesop reported on was not Grasshopper singing. Grasshopper endured all of the criticism he received from Ant without wasting time and energy responding to that little scold. Also, he paid no attention to reporter Aesop sitting there on the sideline and spying on things and making notes. Grasshopper survived all of this nonsense and is still very much with us, hopping around, making noise like never before, eating whatever he wants whenever he wants it. All of his gazillion relatives are also hanging on, more and more of them each year. Ant, however, is not doing all that well. He has not had any new clothing for a long, long time. Whenever you spot him crawling around, you will quickly see that he is naked and without even a T-shirt to wear. His home, if that is what you want to call it, is a hole in the ground. As to his food, he has to be content with uncooked parts of dead bugs and scraps he finds here and there. Moral: Singing for your supper while enjoying the flowers and flying high surely does beat crawling around naked, looking for scraps of food to eat, and living in a hole in the ground. * * * * * * * * * * Image by Milo Winter in "The Aesop for Children" – Public Domain via Gutenberg dot org * * * * * * * * * *