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Given below is the story ‘The Ant and The Grasshopper’ by Aesop. Rewrite it using
sentences in direct speech.
In a field one summer’s day, a grasshopper was dancing and singing when he saw an ant. He
asked the ant what she was doing.
The ant replied that she and her family were gathering food for the winter.
The grasshopper laughed and said that they have got plenty of food for now. They should not
worry about the next day.
But the ant continued to gather food.
When winter came, the grasshopper said to himself that the ants were right. There was no food
to eat. He saw the ants eating their stored food and muttered that he too should have worked
hard and stored some food.
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