Many years ago, I published (in a small magazine) a version in which a human comes across the grasshopper and the ants, and discovers that the ants are busy toiling away arranging their pieces of grain into a mosaic reproduction of the Mona Lisa, under the direction of the grasshopper. After a discussion with the grasshopper, the human realizes that the grasshopper is much smarter than he is, and he is so appalled by the idea that a grasshopper is a better man than he is that he raises his foot to crush the grasshopper. The grasshopper then shoots him dead.