The Ant and the Grasshopper
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The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food fro
The Grasshopper begs at the Ant's door. Art by Charles H. Bennett (1857).
Coloured print of La Fontaine's fable by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, c. 1750
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Wood engraving of the fable by J. J. Grandville, 1838–1840
The Little Red Hen
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The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas magazine in 1874. The story is meant to teach children the importance of hard work and personal initiative.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
…The Fly and the Ant The Little Red Hen, a folk tale with a similar moral Works related to The Ant and the Grasshopper at Wikisource…
The Little Red Hen, 1918 title page
The Little Red Hen, illustrated by Florence White Williams