螞蟻與蚱蜢 伊索著 江銘輝譯
圖：螞蟻們利用晴朗的寒冬，將夏季收集的穀粒晒乾。一隻饑餓的蚱蜢經過，懇求給一點糧食。
一群螞蟻利用一個晴朗的寒冬，將夏季收集的穀粒晒乾。
一隻非常饑餓的蚱蜢經過，懇求給一點糧食。
螞蟻們問牠:「為什麼你不在夏天時儲存糧食?」
蚱蜢回答:「我每天忙著唱歌，根本沒由有多餘時間。」
螞蟻們聽了嘲笑它，說：「如果你笨到在整個夏天，都在唱歌，你必定可以在冬季時整天跳舞，不必吃晚餐就上床睡覺。」
譯者評論：輕鬆、快樂的日子人人想過。問題是每個人都應該未雨綢繆，要有足夠填飽肚子的能力。不要像蚱蜢一樣，夏天時整天玩樂，冬天時才發現沒有糧食可吃。
原著
The ants and the grasshopper
The ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in the summer time.
A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.
The ants enquired of him. "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing."
They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."