The constellation
J711 In time of plenty provide for want
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- Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress · J711.1 entry
- Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves · J711.2 entry
- King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom · J711.3 entry
- Wise man stores grain against coming famine · J711.4 entry
- Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe · J711.5 entry