The grasshopper mocked the ant for working hard to gather food for the winter while he played. When winter came, the ant had plenty of food stored away while the grasshopper had nothing and begged the ant for food but was denied. The milk-maid dreamed as she walked home with a pail of milk of making cream and butter to sell for eggs to start a poultry farm. She further dreamed of selling fowls for a fine dress to wear to the fair and have boys admire her. Lost in her dreams, she jerked her head and spilled all the milk when the pail fell from her head, crying that she had lost everything.