The Ass and the Grasshoppers

In "The Ass and the Grasshoppers", a short fable from Aesop, an ass is envious of the music that grasshoppers make and in an attempt to imitate them, bursts out a horrible sound that frightens everyone away. The story teaches the reader a lesson about the importance of accepting oneself and not attempting to imitate others.

• Children

								
One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some
Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.

He listened with a great deal of admiration to the song of the
Grasshoppers. It was such a joyful song that his pleasure-loving
heart was filled with a wish to sing as they did.

"What is it?" he asked very respectfully, "that has given you
such beautiful voices? Is there any special food you eat, or is
it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"

"Yes," said the Grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; "it
is the dew we drink! Try some and see."

So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but
dew.

Naturally, the poor foolish Ass soon died.

The laws of nature are unchangeable.
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