Original sentence: However, the ant rebukes its idleness and tells it to dance the winter away now.The fable concerns a grasshopper (in the original, a cicada) that has spent the summer singing while the ant (or ants in some versions) worked to store up food for winter.The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future
Edited sentence: The fable concerns a grasshopper (in the original, a cicada) that has spent the warm months singing while the ant (or ants in some versions) worked to store up food for winter.The fable describes a grasshopper who carelessly enjoyed a warm summer, and was unprepared for the impending cold winter approach an ant who worked tirelessly to prepare for winter, asking for food.The situation faced by the unprepared grasshopper as winter approaches then becomes the basis for the fable's moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.To its reply, when asked, that it had sung all summer, it is rebuked for its idleness and advised to dance during the winter