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Default Two Versions, One Tale

Andy wrote:


> The ant works hard in the sweltering heat all summer long,
> building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
> The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
> dances and plays the summer away.
>
> Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
>
> The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in
> the cold.
>


You forgot to mention that the ant was storing the crop that the
grasshoppers had planted and tended. He got his and to h#ll
with the grasshoppers.

Just another tale of the "ungodly" greed
of the few at the expense of the many .

gloria p