Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves

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Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in provision for live. · Forethought in provision for food. · view the constellation · filed as J711.2

Cited in the index

general *Chauvin II 115 No. 90.

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Filed under 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 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 Wise man stores grain against coming famine Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe

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