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Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice

John Rae

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by John Rae

 

 

 

Published by Algonquin Publishing Company New York

 

 

This Book is dedicated, to Grasshoppers, Meadow-Mice, Fairies & Children: especially to Waltie, Jackie & Robyn

 

 

 

Copyright MCMXXII Algonquin Publishing Company Copyright Great Britain MCMXXII GRASSHOPPER GREEN AND
THE MEADOW-MICE

 f Course you know the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ant"—how one autumn, when the winds were growing raw and cold and the nights frosty, the poor Grasshopper, who hadn't done anything but fiddle and dance all through the pleasant summer and had nothing laid by for the hard winter, went to the thrifty Ant and asked for a bite to eat and a chance to warm his toes in the chimney corner. And how the tight-fisted Ant refused and said to the shivering Grasshopper, "Keep on fiddling and dancing, it may help to keep you war. . . Read More