The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced . ONE day the Countrymen noticedthat the Mountains were in labour ;smoke came out of their summits,the earth was quaking at theirfeet, trees were crashing, and huge rocks weretumbling. They felt sure that somethinghorrible was going to happen. They allgathered together in one place to see whatterrible thing this would be. They waited. ^ESOPS FABLES 37 and they waited, but nothing came. At lastthere was a still more violent earthquake, anda huge gap appeared in the side of the Moun-tains. They all fell down upon their kneesand wai
The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced . ONE day the Countrymen noticedthat the Mountains were in labour ;smoke came out of their summits,the earth was quaking at theirfeet, trees were crashing, and huge rocks weretumbling. They felt sure that somethinghorrible was going to happen. They allgathered together in one place to see whatterrible thing this would be. They waited. ^ESOPS FABLES 37 and they waited, but nothing came. At lastthere was a still more violent earthquake, anda huge gap appeared in the side of the Moun-tains. They all fell down upon their kneesand waited. At last, and at last, a teeny, tinymouse poked its little head and bristles outof the gap and came running down towardsthem ; and ever after they used to say : ^ttclj outcry, little outcome*
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