For this monster bump, when frightened, is quite liable to
quakes.


"You can hear a bell that's ringing;

I can feel some people's singing;
But a mountain isn't sensible of what goes on, and so

When I hear a blizzard blowing

Or it's raining hard, or snowing,
I tell it to the mountain and the mountain seems to know.


"Thus I benefit all people

While I'm living on this steeple,
For I keep the mountain steady so my neighbors all may thrive.

With my list'ning and my shouting

I prevent this mount from spouting,
And that makes me so important that I'm glad that I'm alive."


When he had finished these lines of verse the Bumpy Man
turned again to resume his stirring. The Ork laughed
softly and Cap'n Bill whistled to himself and Trot made
up her mind that the Mountain Ear must be a little crazy.