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Title: The Ass And The Grasshopper Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices. They replied: "The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger. Where one may live, another may starve. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |