This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...LESSON OF PERSEVERANCE. Once upon a time, according to an old fable, there was a merry grasshopper, who chirruped away and hopped about through the grass all summer as happy as he could be. A big bumble-bee saw him, and said, " Look out for the winter, my friend, or you'll starve." Then a hard-working ant asked him to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...LESSON OF PERSEVERANCE. Once upon a time, according to an old fable, there was a merry grasshopper, who chirruped away and hopped about through the grass all summer as happy as he could be. A big bumble-bee saw him, and said, " Look out for the winter, my friend, or you'll starve." Then a hard-working ant asked him to help him to roll along a great big piece of bread which he had found. "Not I," said the grasshopper; "I'm no fool. You don't catch me working like a slave, with such lovely sunshine as this all about us." "But there's a winter coming on," said the ant; "and what will you do then, with the cold weather and the snow on the ground?" "Oh, I'll wait till it comes," replied the grasshopper; "and, besides, I never saw a winter, and I don't believe it is so bad as people say." And away he jumped over the tall grass. But at last the leaves fell, and it grew very cold, and the snow came, and the poor grasshopper had the rheumatism in his fine legs, and he did not know how he was to live. He went to a bee-hive, and begged the bees to take him in; but they said they were all full in there, and had no room for loafers. Then he went to an ant-hill and tried to get in; but he was told at the door that they had no food to spare for those who would not work. And so the poor grasshopper died. (155) 12 The grasshopper died because he had no end or aim in life. He was not persevering; but the bees and the ants lived on, because of their incessant perseverance. A lady once said of her boy: --"When our Tom was six years old, he went into the forest one afternoon to meet the hired man, who was coming home with a load of wood. The man placed Master Tommy on the top of the load, and drove homewa...
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