One day an ass heard some grasshoppers chirping and loved the melody.
The ass wished he could sing in the same way.
He asked the grasshoppers what sort of food they lived on.
The ass thought grasshopper food was the secret of their beautiful voices.
The grasshoppers told the ass that they lived on dew.
After that the ass decided that he would only eat dew.
A short time later he died of hunger