These are inhabitants of his own country; neighbours, fellow-parishioners.

Their life, private and public, is lived under his eyes; but the Cigale is a stranger to the haunts of Jack Rabbit.

La Fontaine had never seen nor heard her.

For him the celebrated songstress was certainly a grasshopper.
Grandville, whose pencil rivals the author's pen, has fallen into the same error.

In his illustration to the fable we see the Ant dressed like a busy housewife.