The Mountains in Labour

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The Mountains in Labour
        One day the Countrymen noticed that the Mountains were in
        labour; 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."