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"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Gould, however, correctly stated that there was no evidence at all to suggest that any of the British ant species he knew hoarded grain .
The title is a pun on Book of Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise." The fictional character Jimmy Mundy is based on evangelical preacher Billy Sunday. [5] In the story, Jeeves visits two nightclubs, "Frolics on the Roof" and the "Midnight Revels".
Walter de la Mare wrote that "a childhood without the busy bee and the sluggard would resemble a hymnal without ‘O God, our help in ages past’." [ 5 ] Charles Dickens 's novels occasionally quote "Against Idleness and Mischief"; [ 6 ] for instance, in his 1850 novel David Copperfield , the school master Dr. Strong quotes lines 11-12: "Satan ...
As published in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1867): [After the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle have sung and danced to the Lobster Quadrille, Alice mentions the poems she has attempted to recite, and the Gryphon tells Alice to stand and recite " 'Tis the voice of the sluggard", which she reluctantly does] "but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was ...
The Ant Bully (ISBN 0590395912) is a 1999 children's book drawn and written by John Nickle. It is about a young boy named Lucas, who is the title character in the book and who likes to torment ants. It was later adapted into the 2006 animated film The Ant Bully by John A. Davis, produced by Legendary Pictures and DNA Productions for Warner Bros ...
The title characters, while journeying through a human home, decide to exploit a sugar bowl—full of sugar cubes—on their own rather than taking one sugar cube for themselves like the colony's queen (so each of the ants get one sugar cube and so does the queen ant). The two ants decide that instead of taking one sugar cube for themselves ...
The Sluggard may refer to: a bronze statue of Giuseppe Valona, by Lord Frederic Leighton a moralistic poem by Isaac Watts : see wikisource:The Sluggard (Watts)
Painting of a 19th-century dog whipper and sluggard waker A sluggard waker was an 18th-century job undertaken by a parishioner (usually the parish clerk ), in British churches . [ 1 ] The sole task of the sluggard waker was to watch the congregation during the services and tap anyone who appeared to be falling asleep sharply on the head. [ 2 ]