An _Ant_ and a _Grasshopper_.
As the _Ants_ were Airing their Provisions One Winter, Up comes a Hungry
_Grasshopper_ to ’em, and begs a Charity. They told him that he should
have Wrought in Summer, if he would not have Wanted in Winter. Well, says
the _Grasshopper_, but I was not Idle neither; for I Sung out the Whole
Season. Nay then, said they, You shall e’en do Well to make a Merry Year
on’t, and Dance in Winter to the Tune that You Sung in Summer.
The MORAL.
_A Life of Sloth is the Life of a Brute; but Action and Industry is the
Bus’ness of a Great, a Wise, and a Good Man._