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Once upon a time, in the land of fairy tales, there lived an ant and a
grasshopper. The ant knew how to separate work time from free time. At the
beginning of each day, this ant would get up early and collect food to store
for the winter. He had a lot of food saved up by the end of the summer. The
grasshopper was a different story, he was very lazy. He kept saying he would
do the work tomorrow. The ant warned the grasshopper that unless he sacrificed
some free time to work, he might find himself dying of starvation when winter
came. The grasshopper didn’t pay attention. He kept sleeping late, playing
Nintendo games, and not working at all. Suddenly, winter came. The ant was
successful in storing his food he went into his ant pile to rest, the grasshopper
was cold and hungry. He hadn’t built a house, or stored any food. If
this story were a true fairy tale, the grasshopper would have died, because
he was unprepared. However, this ending reflects the true nature of ants
and grasshoppers. In this story, the grasshopper decides to eat the ant,
and take all his food.
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