One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some
Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.
He listened with a great deal of admiration to the song of the
Grasshoppers. It was such a joyful song that his pleasure-loving
heart was filled with a wish to sing as they did.
"What is it?" he asked very respectfully, "that has given you
such beautiful voices? Is there any special food you eat, or is
it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"
"Yes," said the Grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; "it
is the dew we drink! Try some and see."
So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but
dew.
Naturally, the poor foolish Ass soon died.
_The laws of nature are unchangeable._