ABSTRACT
Told by Margherita Martorana, a washerwoman, to Salvatore Salomone-Marino in Partinico.
Once upon a time there was a grasshopper and an ant. It was sum-mer, and the grasshopper lay on his back, continually sang, andannoyed the people who passed by. He didn’t think at all that he’d have to work to eat. In contrast, the ant went about here and there picking up a grain of wheat, a crumb of bread, and all sorts of things. Then he carried everything to a hole where he stored his provisions for the winter. When winter came, the grasshopper didn’t have anything to eat and was dying of hunger. Meanwhile the ant nibbled away at the provisions that he had gathered.
