When I was a child (in the 30s) a national women's magazing--I think Good Housekeeping--as I recall used to occasionally have a children's story section in the center, cartoon illustrated. I remember a version of The Ants and the Grasshopper which made the grasshopper out to be not only improvident but unpleasantly scornful of the hard-working ants. Come winter, when he was starving and freezing, the kindly ants took him into their warm burrow out of the kindness of their hearts, where he played his fiddle to pay for supper!

Dave Oesterreich