The Ants And The Grasshopper (Cricket)

The Ants and The Grasshopper
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One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
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"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
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"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
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The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust. "Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!"
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And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
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"There's a time for work and a time for play."
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Lessons From Aesop Fables
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Fable #126 THE ANT AND THE CRICKET
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During the wintertime, an ant was living off the grain that he had stored up for himself during the summer. The cricket came to the ant and asked him to share some of his grain. The ant said to the cricket, 'And what were you doing all summer long, since you weren't gathering grain to eat?' The cricket replied, 'Because I was busy singing I didn't have time for the harvest.' The ant laughed at the cricket's reply, and hid his heaps of grain deeper in the ground. 'Since you sang like a fool in the summer,' said the ant, 'you better be prepared to dance the winter away!'
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This fable depicts lazy, careless people who indulge in foolish pastimes, and therefore lose out.
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http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/373.htm
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Aesop's Fables (Myth-Folklore Online)
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Wikipedia - The Ant And The Grasshopper