The men spent all day digging and sweating and digging and sweating. Shoveling the mud into the big lorry. The hole got very deep and started to get wet in the bottom. When the big lorry was full it drove away. It went around the town dropping little bits of mud everywhere. Soon it left the town and entered the country. It came to a field and dumped the mud. There was so much mud that it was like a little hill. The lorry drove back.
The men, when they saw the lorry coming, finished there cups of tea and started digging again. They started digging next to the first hole. There was sweat and digging everywhere. Gradually they filled the lorry back up with mud until the hole was so deep it was wet. Once filled the lorry again made its journey to the field to dump the mud. With the new mud the hill was starting to look like a recpectable one. This went on for several days, digging, sweating, driving, dumping until eventually the hole was big enough to fill with water and be called a lake and the hill was big enough to be called a mountain. Ducks and other wildlife such as humans came from afar to enjoy the new lake. They had boats and webbed feet. After a couple of years the lake became so popular that the men decided they would need a new railway line to help control the build up of traffic. Unfortunatly the only place it could go was where the mud mountain had been dumped. They decided to move the mountain and in order to prevent this happening again they filled the old lakes with the mud. So they dug and sweated and drove and dumped until all the old lakes were full. In fact there was so much mud that they had to fill all the rivers, streams, resevoirs and holes they could find. Once completed they built there railway track and thousands of people came to the lake that was dug by man. So many people were there that they could hardly move. Still they had a lot of fun especially in summertime.
Several more years went by and seemingly the lake had brought people together (it was the only one they had so they had to share) and everyone was happy. It was in the ninth year that it happened. Overnight the water level of the lake halved. The men got out the original plans and noticed that a very important thing had been forgotten. they had not done anything to prevent the water from draining away properly. A clever scientist worked out that because of the number of people visiting everyday the water was not able to drain gradually, instead it eventually caused the earth to crack under the weight.
That day the usuall number of people arrived. They were very excited as they could now jump from quite a height into the lake. The clever scientist realised the dangers and started to arrange for an evacuation. At the very moment he thought this the crack in the earth doubled in size swallowing all the water and people up like jelly. Thousands upon thousands men, women and children met with a rather ugly death. The crack was eventually filled with bodies.