One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage. The Wolf could not help thinking how nice it would be to have a fine fat Dog to eat instead of the scrawny object before him. On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.


But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck.
So when they saw the Birds getting the better of it, they were Birds for all there was in it.
And since then the Bat family hides in dark towers and deserted ruins, flying out only in the night. Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.

But while they were debating how best to meet death, they thought they heard a noise and in a flash were scampering off to the warren. Instead of flying up to greet the first rays of the morning sun or to bathe in the rosy light among the floating clouds at sunset, he would have to walk the ground more encumbered and oppressed than any common barnyard fowl.

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