English Original
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."
中文翻译
一座山正在“分娩”，七个城市的人们聚集在一起，观看它的动静，聆听它的呻吟。就在他们屏息期待之际，出来的却是一只老鼠。
“哦，真是个‘小不点’！”他们嘲笑道。
“我或许是个‘小不点’，”老鼠严肃地说，一边从如林的腿间穿过，“但我相当清楚如何诊断一座火山。”