"What did you do through the warm weather?" asked the oldest ant.
"We played in the sunshine. We chirped and buzzed and sang."
"Did you build no lodge? Could you not store food for the time of frost and storm?"
"We had no need to work when the summer was here with its warmth and beauty. We danced away the happy hours."
"Go dance away the winter, then," said the oldest ant. "I worked hard through all the long summer days, and I had no time to dance or sing."
The locust and the katydid turned away shivering. "It is not fair," they said, "that the ant has plenty and we have nothing. She should be forced to let us in."
HOW WILD RICE WAS DISCOVERED
When Good Bird and White Cloud reached home, they found great rejoicing. Swift Elk had shot his first deer, and the meat was already roasting by an outdoor fire.