The Mountain and the Mouse
a mountain was in labour, and the people of seven cities had
assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans1. while they
waited in breathless expectancy2 out came a mouse.
"oh, what a baby!" they cried in derision.
"i may be a baby," said the mouse, gravely, as he passed outward
through the forest of shins, "but i know tolerably well how to
diagnose a volcano."
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