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  Anthony the Ant Learns his Lesson

  By Anne Spackman

  Copyright 2012 by Anne Spackman

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  One sunny afternoon in the middle of a great green meadow, a small mound of ants was busy outside harvesting food. One of the ants, an ant named Anthony, was sitting resting by the side of the ant pile.

  “What are you doing there?” said one of the worker ants to Anthony as he passed him by.

  “I am taking a rest,” said Anthony. “I have been carrying leaves and grains to the pile all day, and I am tired. I hoped to rest my feet here for a bit.”

  “Well, I never heard such a thing. We ants all work all day long, that is the life of an ant,” said the other ant with a shrug. “You had better get back to work soon,” said the other ant. And with that, he left Anthony to take his grain into the ant pile.

  Now Anthony was ordinarily a hard-working little bug. But after many days of hard work, he had gotten so tired that he wanted to just sit for a little while, more than anything else in the whole world.

  “No one will mind if I just rest right here for a bit longer,” thought Anthony to himself. And after a few minutes, he actually fell asleep.

  Time passed by and the afternoon wore on into early evening. The little ants were soon nearly done with their hard work for the day.

  A clap of thunder was suddenly heard through the September heavens, and soon little rain drops were falling upon the ant hill. The ants were still around the ant pile under a tree gathering leaves and small grains. Most of them hurried into the ant pile to escape the rain.

  However, there was poor Anthony, asleep out in the rain! He woke up totally soaked. And he woke up nearly drowning in a big puddle that had formed outside the ant pile!

  “Whoa!” yelped Anthony. He hurried to higher ground to escape the puddle.

  Anthony had learned a valuable lesson, not to rest too much or sleep too much on the job, so that he wouldn’t be left outside in the rain! Now Anthony was wet and cold, while the other hard-working little ants were dry and resting in comfort within the ant pile.

  Anthony shook the water off himself as best he could and hurried home to the ant pile. It was slow-going through the water, but soon he had made it back up and into the ant pile.

  The next day, Anthony was the hardest working ant of all! He carried his grains quite happily from the fields into the ant pile, and didn’t stop to rest even for a bit. He was also a very happy ant, and all of the hard work made him hungry for dinner. At dinner-time, the other ants rewarded him for his hard work with an especially big serving of food, that Anthony was grateful for.

  He went to bed a contented little bug.

  The end.

 

 

  Anne Spackman, Anthony the Ant Learns his Lesson

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