The Mountains in Labor
The
Mountains in Labor
One day the Countrymen
noticed that the Mountains were in labor; smoke came out of their summits, the
earth was quaking at their feet, trees were crashing, and huge rocks were
tumbling. They felt sure that something horrible was going to happen. They all
gathered together in one place to see what terrible thing this could be. They
waited and they waited, but nothing came. At last, there was a still more
violent earthquake, and a huge gap appeared in the side of the Mountains. They
all fell down upon their knees and waited. At last, and at last, a teeny, tiny
mouse poked its little head and bristles out of the gap and came running down
towards them, and ever after they used to say. “Much outcry, little outcome.”
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