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Try "The Grasshopper and the Ant"

The sense is the same -- one works while the other fiddles -- but the Ant doesn't rub the Grasshopper's nose (or mandibles, I guess) in his fecklessness the way the Little Red Hen does to the Cat, the Goose and the Pig, or whatever three animals your version picks. The Grasshopper approaches hat in hand, and the Ant says sorry, but no.

If the fable mentioned that the Ant enjoyed the Grasshopper's music while gathering food, there would be some issue of payment for artistic services, but Aesop never brings that up. ;)

Regards--
Mary Anne

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