The Ass and the Grasshopper
By Aesop
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.
Moral:
Where one may live, another may starve.
Source Book
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York
