The owl(猫头鹰) always sleeps during the day. There was a certain old owl who had become very hard to please as she grew older, especially if anything disturbed(妨碍) her sleep. One warm summer afternoon as she slept in an old tree, a grasshopper(蚱蜢) began a song. The song woke the old owl up and the old owl became very angry.
“Get away from here, sir,” she said to the grasshopper. “Have you no manners? You should at least respect(尊重) my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!”
But the grasshopper said that he had as much right to his place in the sun as the owl had to her place in the old oak(橡树). Then he sang more loudly.
The smart old owl knew quite well that it would do no good to argue with the grasshopper. What was more, her eyes were not good enough by day to let her kill the grasshopper. So she stopped all hard words and spoke very kindly to him. “Well sir,” she said, “if I must stay awake, I am going to enjoy your singing. Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine(葡萄酒) here. I hear Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods. Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me. I know it will make you sing like Apollo himself.”
The stupid grasshopper believed in the owl’s words, so he jumped near the owl. As soon as he was near enough and the old owl could see him clearly, she caught him and ate him up.
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