The Ant and The Grasshopper (Cerita Semut dan Belalang)

Once there was a grasshopper who spent the whole summer singing and playing without a care in the world. While the grasshopper had fun, his neighbors, the ants, were busy gathering food and storing it for the winter. The grasshopper laughed at the ants and told them they should enjoy the summer instead of working so hard.

The ants warned the grasshopper that he should also store food for the winter, or else he would be hungry when the cold weather arrived. But the grasshopper didn't listen and kept playing.

When winter came, the grasshopper found himself hungry and freezing. He went to the ants and asked them for food, saying he now understood that he should have prepared for the winter too.

The ants felt sorry for the grasshopper, so they shared their food with him. They also made him promise that next summer, he would work hard and store food just like they did.

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Suatu ketika, ada seekor belalang yang menghabiskan seluruh musim panas dengan bernyanyi dan bermain tanpa khawatir sedikit pun. Sementara belalang bersenang-senang, tetangganya, para semut, sibuk mengumpulkan makanan dan menyimpannya untuk musim dingin. Belalang itu menertawakan para semut dan mengatakan bahwa mereka seharusnya menikmati musim panas daripada bekerja keras.

Para semut memperingatkan belalang bahwa dia juga harus menyimpan makanan untuk musim dingin, atau dia akan kelaparan saat cuaca dingin tiba. Tetapi belalang tidak mendengarkan dan terus bermain.

Ketika musim dingin tiba, belalang merasa lapar dan kedinginan. Dia pergi ke semut-semut dan meminta makanan, sambil mengatakan bahwa dia sekarang mengerti bahwa dia seharusnya juga mempersiapkan diri untuk musim dingin.

Para semut merasa kasihan pada belalang, jadi mereka membagi makanan mereka dengannya. Mereka juga membuatnya berjanji bahwa musim panas berikutnya, dia akan bekerja keras dan menyimpan makanan seperti yang mereka lakukan.