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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."
    


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