All summer long the Grasshopper sang in the tall warm grass, while the Ant toiled back and forth, back and forth, dragging kernels of corn to her store. "Why work so hard?" laughed the Grasshopper. "Come and sing! There is food everywhere."
"I am laying up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and I'd advise you to do the same." The Grasshopper only laughed the harder, and went on with his song.
Then the cold came down, and the fields went bare.
The Grasshopper, starving and shivering, found the Ant handing out corn from the hoard she had gathered grain by grain. He begged for a share. "You sang all summer," said the Ant, not unkindly. "You might have thought about the winter while the sun was out."
The moral
Prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.