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PAUL B UNYAN,
His Playground, The North Woods
Paul Bunyan is the patron saint of all woodsmen and lovers
of outdoors;
stories'
America's legendary. hero.
follow about him.
Several select "tall
Paul's parents used an old lumber wagon for a baby carriage.
His feet dangled over the end of the wagon, tearing up the roads.
In school Pau used a slab of lime stone for a slate and a big
white pine tree for a pencil. The teacher's inability to read Paul's
huge script discouraged him and he decided to become a logger.
The 10,000 lakes in this state are the footprints of Paul's
Gigantic Blue Ox, Babe, who measured forty-two ax handles wide
between the eyes.
timber at one time. Paul then would cut the timber and Babe
would haul another section. Everytime Babe was to be shod, Paul
opened a new iron mine.
one crew could tote to camp in six months.
One extremely cold winter, blue snowflakes as big as a base-
ball submerged even the tallest trees.
jacket on Babe, his color being exactly like the snow. So cold it
was that Paul's coffee pot froze solid to the back of the stove.
When the blue snow melted, Babe's footprints were filled w th
blue water.
Sky Blue Water".
Johnny Inkslinger, Paul's bookkeeper, was about his size.
He was a whiz at figures and efficiency. His fountain pen was
connected by a hose to a barrel of ink. By not dotting i's" and
crossing "t's", he saved nine barrels of ink on the payroll alone
in one winter.
Paul's cook, Sourdough Sam, had only one leg and one arm
but he and 267 flunk es fed Paul's lumbering crew.
were made on a griddle so large that you couldn't see across it.
Sixteen lored boys with bacon tied to their shoes greased the
griddle. The enormous pancakes were carried to tables on con-
He hauled a whole section, 640 acres of
Babe ate in one day as much food as
Paul had to tie a red stag
Then Paul called his playground, "The Land of
Pancakes
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veyor belts. Big Joe, the master cook, made
sausages as large as logs to go with the paschke
-fifty-fifty rabbit and horse
meat. Huge Aough-
nuts were carried on long poles by two 16
Big Joe called Paul's lumberjacks algu PAM
by blowing Paul's dinnerhorn. The first time
he blew so hard that he knocked down several
sections of timber and blew some of the lumbn9 39
jacks so far away that it took them a day to get
back to camp.
In the early days, Paul had his troubles.
Mosquitoes weighing a pound, wingspread 12 or
14 inches, mated with giant bees, produced off-
spring having stingers fore and aft.
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Nath Woors Best
wishes from
8/19/24
BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS.-BIL
Miss
Carolyn Portantly
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