In time of plenty provide for want — Mythoi

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In time of plenty provide for want.

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

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Filed under Forethought in provision for food.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves 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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Food alone keeps off hunger Make use of proper seasons for crops Kindness unwise when it imperils one's food supply

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