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 would be. They waited 



