I wonder if we can have the Squirrel and the Grasshopper retold as the ‘Carillion’ version?

Where it would go like this

Lots of greedy squirrels hatch a plan to build huge piles of nuts and dens for themselves and lots of creatures and so they get lots of grasshoppers to do their work for them and collect all their nuts with the promise that they will pay them a few nuts in time for Winter in a months time

The little grasshoppers do their work to the instructions of the squirrels but when they ask for their nuts in payment in time for Winter the squirrels say sorry you’ve not done quite what we ask for, you need to do more and we’ve got whole armies of squirrels to prove it and we only pay grasshoppers two seasons after Winter because we are bigger than you and you don’t really need the nuts now

Some grasshoppers go hungry and die, others try to continue to gather nuts but in the promise of more nuts

The Squirrels dens for other creatures get delayed and go bad but the Squirrels keep their nuts and dens and are nice and warm in the Winter

The Squirrels then go to the governor of the forest and say, please help us to give some nuts to the grasshoppers by taking nuts from lots of other creatures and less greedy squirrels as we haven’t got enough nuts to go to the grasshoppers and we are such a large group of squirrels that you need us for next years gathering

In my ending the governor of the forest should say get lost and banish the greedy squirrels from ever gathering nuts again but sadly I don’t think that will happen

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