There is famous fable that an ant collected a good stock of grains during summer and a grasshopper wasted his
time in singing. As a result the ant was happy during winter where as the grasshopper had to suffer. The fable teaches us that hard working people are happy while the lazy people have to suffer but the author doesn’t agree with this.
There were two brothers, George Ramsay the elder one and Tom Ramsay the younger one. George was thoughtful, hardworking and responsible. He cared about his wife and children. On the other hand Tom was a totally worthless fellow. He had left his wife and children and spent his life gambling, drinking and merry making. So he was forever in debt. Poor George had to pay back his debts to save the honor of his family.
One day Tom asked George for five hundred pounds because he had borrowed money from Cronshaw and spent it away. Tom feared imprisonment as Cronshaw had threatened to take the matter to court. George had to pay it to Tom. But later he came to know that Tom and Cronshaw had spent that money in enjoying luxuriously for one full month in Monte Carlo.
Tom spent life luxuriously and in a fashionable way for the next twenty years spending money on races, dresses, gambling and girls. He never thought of his old age and his future. Where as George looked older .He always use to work for more than eight hours a day. He saved for his family and his old age and was often fooled by Tom, whom he had to give money regularly. This was the reason why he always was worried.
Tom was cunning enough to marry very rich but old women. She died and left for him a huge sum of money, two houses and a hatch.
Thus the author finds no natural justice in real life because the lazy, worthless and dishonorable brother gets riches for his old age. And the hard working, decent, and respectable brother remains worried for money for his own old age.