The grasshopper replied; “I was singing all day and night during the summer. And so I had no time to gather any food. Please lend me some food.” “Well, then,” said the ant. “As you sang all the summer, you had better dance all the winter. You only played and did not work during the summer. We'll never lend you any food.” And the ants went on working.
16.Jack and the Robber（傑克與強盜）
Jack was a farmer's boy. Once he drove his cart to market. He had butter and eggs to sell.
He met a woman on the way. She gave him a piece of silver for a little butter. Then he met a boy. The boy gave him a piece of silver for six eggs.
Soon Jack had plenty of silver in his pocket. As Jack went along, a man came up to him, and said, “Stop!”
So Jack stopped on the way again. The man gave him some wine. Jack drank it, and fell asleep on the roadside. When Jack woke up, his silver was not in his pocket. It was all gone. The man was a robber, and poor Jack went home sadly.
17.Abraham Lincoln（亞伯拉罕?林肯）
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S father and mother were very poor and the family lived in a log cabin in the wood.
Abraham had to walk about five miles to school, as there was no school near his eleven years old, he had to leave school and work He loved to study and after working hard all day, he user to study to study by the firelight. He grew to be a wise and good man. He was elected President of the United States.
At that time there was a war between the North and the South. The people of the South wanted to own slaves, but those of the North thought that it was wrong to own slaves. Then the South and the North fought for four years and at last the North won and the slaves were set free.
18.A Bad Dream（一個惡夢）
One afternoon Ben was playing in the back yard, A big black cat jumped over the fence and lay down among his mother's plants. Ben crept up to the cat. He caught it by the tail and dropped it into a tub of water.
His mother looked out of the window and saw him. She called him into the house and scolded him for such a cruelty. Then she told him that he must go to bed and stay there till evening.
Before long Ben fell asleep. He dreamed that he grew very small A very very big cat seized him in its mouth and ran away with him He kicked and screamed, but he could not get away, At last the cat dropped him and he fell into a big pond. He sand down, down into the cold water. Then he woke up.
19.King Alfred and the Cakes（阿佛列王與糕餅）
King ALFRED O f England once led his army to fight with another army and was beaten. So he had to run away through the woods and swamps to save his life.
One evening he came to a woodcutter’s hut. He was very tired and hungry, so he begged the woodcutter’s wife to give him something to eat and a place to sleep in. He was ragged and dirty and she did not know that he was the king. She felt so sorry for him that she told him to come in and gave hem a seat near the fire.
She was baking some cakes. She said to King Alfred, “ I must go and milk the cow. Watch the cakes and do not let them burn. “ The king was willing to do this, but he kept thinking about his army and soon forgot all about the cakes. In a few minutes the woman came back and found the cakes burning. She was so angry that she struck the king with a stick and cried, “ You lazy fellow! You want to eat, but you do not want to work.”
20.Tony's Lie（湯尼的謊言）
One day Tony was a very bad boy. He told a lie to his mother. That night felt very unhappy. He did not want to play with the children.
He sat on the doorstep alone. He looked up in the sky and saw the big round moon. He thought that it was looking down upon him, because it knew about the lie. He ran down the street to get away from it, but it kept following him. Then he crept into the house and went to bed, but the moon looked at him through the window. He pulled the sheet over his head, but he could not sleep. Then he crawled under the bed and lay there in the dark. He thought and thought about the lie.
At last he decided to tell his mother all about it. He told her the truth and she forgave him. He promised never to tell a lie again.
He went back to bed and was soon fast asleep. He dreamed that the moon smiled down upon him.