Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — The Grasshopper and the Ant. [ARTICLE]

The Grasshopper and the Ant.

A Grasshopper meeting an Ant when the biting wind of November was masticating its way over the Plain, humbly requested Pecuniary assistance until next Saturday. “Why should I share my store with you ?” inquired the Aftt. “Here I have passed the entire summer in laying up Boots and Grain and collecting Bad debts, and making dep sits in the Savings Bank. What, may I ask, have you been doing during the Heated Term ?” “May it please you,” responded the grasshopper, “I have been dancing. ” “Very well,” said the ant, “now you may sing. ” “Right you are I” exclaimed the Grasshopper ; “it is a big scheme. ” And he at once went and got an engagement to sing in Grand Opera at $5,000 a night. The moral of this Fable teaches us that plodding industry is not only a bore, but occasionally gets Left.--Puck.