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Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Mountain in Labour

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Three Hundred Aesop's Fables (1867)
by Æsop, illustrated by Harrison Weir, translated by George Fyler Townsend
The Mountain in Labour

London: George Routledge and Sons, page 44

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THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR.

A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard; and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.

Don't make much ado about nothing.