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A short story by Ambrose Bierce |
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The Mountain and the Mouse |
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Title: The Mountain and the Mouse Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce] A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless expectancy 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." -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |