Show I 1 N 4 e G M rezk aw br F 1 4 il 4 ra 3 A auli 1 DUNYA DUNYAK K ot of course cour you know all about abou t zt no wily tats too bad that inears nu aus that youve never dever been around in the big forests of the ave wust avest st and northwest the lum ber jacks never dever tire of talking about his big doings and if you dont know about paul tind and his doings probably you never heard about the winter pt of the blue snow no well too bad too nobody seams to be able to give the exact year of tile winter of the blue snow but it t must have been some time ago anway an way most of tile the stories about the canting of paul begin it vias nas tile the al inter of the blue snow y know an gaii 2 in fact the winter of the blue snow may have been as for far back as the building ot of solomons temple in jerusalem and that must nave have been away back something like 1000 B C anyway when solomon decided teci ded to built build he made a dail alt hiram king icing of tyre for some N nhoi hot plug big timbers ps you remi rem aber what solo man said to 0 o 11 hiram frain now therefore ci tho inhar they hew me cedar trees out of lebanon and my servants shall be with thy and unto thee will I 1 give hire tor for thy servants sen ants according acco neco iding to nil all that thou appoint for thou that there is 19 not among ua its any that can skill to hew timbers like unto the and in the fifth and sixth chapters of I 1 kings it is written that hiram gave solomon cedar trees and fie trees ac according cordin to all his desire of course the one place for to cut cedars of lebanon lay ready to hand but wl en it came to the firs hiram had to look around a bit finally lie he decided the country up around washington and oregon way had exactly the kind of fir timber that solomon wanted the only trouble was that there seem to be any easy way to get the big trees down to the ocean so allram hunted up paul gunyan bunyan and got him to go up there and straighten things out paul found it tin an easy job there was a lot of water lying around loose east of the cascades and bri h just pulled the mountains apart so that the water could run down to vie tie sea capt robert gray of boston the first man to carry the american wag dag around the world discovered in A D this river that paul made for fm king hiram and be called it the columbia this little job of making the columbia was probably pulled oft off before paul or rather babe his big ox started the mississippi running anyway there Is this difference between the two jobstle Jobs the mississippi was an accident you see one season paul worked so hard at his lumbering that he got mighty thirsty rity so he took his bis spade and cast an eye about for a likely spot for a reservoir and scooped out a few shovel fuls and made the great lakes then he set babe to work carrying big tanks of water from lake superior across to where he was logging one day a tank fell oft off rind and sprung so go many leaks that they left it lie where it was they care it it did make tile the mississippi sis als sippi well now to got lot back to the bauo snow according to the lumberjacks lumber jacks I 1 who sit about the hg big stove after dinner after a hard bard days work in the N e K P ul i W jr 7 af woods the blue snow was quite lute coir j considerable snow it hail had fallen so persistently and piled up so deep that all the camps were snowed in why it 11 a lumberjack wanted to get to tile lie cooks shanty for a snack between meals aneals he be had to tunnel and of coill se 1 locking ang tind bad topped stopped alello ll ello the camp the hall ball boomed booked alke it a clip clap of tl thunder under it was night and the men inen were sitting silting around tle the big stove in the living room A small gale came down the chimney anil ani blew the ashes out on the floor still it was a pleasant friendly sort of hall at that can you take me tu in tor for the night boomed the great voice they t told him to tome la in presently the toe of 0 a great boot was shoving the snow away from the door well the nian man wa was s taller laller than ten cook shanties so of course he very well pet get through the door the stranger seemed a bit disappointed but not at all discouraged and he song sang out all ail right boys im paul bunyan fin and I 1 see bee ill have to build my own camp just pass me out a few hogs hoga to roast for my supper and ill go right to work paul bunyan was a nice looking fellow with a big black moustache anil and ackling i ar kling eyes lie he had bad with him babe ills his ox os that yas vas seven ax handles wide be between teen horns herns and was constructed ted with a hinge in its middle so that it could get around corners comers and turns in the road and paul and babe were a sure enough team before morning they had built a great camp so great that nobody ever succeeded in making the he circuit of it lie ile always died of old age before lie he got around paul brought in a prize camp ot of lumberjacks lumber jacks they were so good at their business that before the end of the first brat day they had cut off 03 everything on the sections along the river so the next day before breakfast paul had find babe haul away all the lopped logged sections and haul back heavily timbered sections in their place all lumbermen you know like to work close to the river yes pauls men worked liard hard but be fed them hero well of course they were fond of pancakes so paul told big ole the only man in the world strong enough to shoe babe to fix up alp a pari pancake calce griddle that would do the he business right big ole did a good job the griddle was so big that thai on a foggy day you yot see across it and when lt it was going full blast paul had to get a dozen of his men to tie tir sides of pork on their feet arid and skate around it to keep it greased ali and lie fed ills inen meat plenty of it it 1 e eol kept six teams busy all winter hauling pepper to season it with and when ben tt it came to prunes why when paul served prunes for dinner he had to set a gang to work with shovels to tc clean up the prune pits paul was a mighty accommodating fellow lie he often loaned babe to a camp that was behind in its work isabe babe always got the job over in one lay day the big ox had bad to for it always A ays ate up all the fodder in the camp at its first meal paul when the trees were extra big would tackle them himself bied pick up tin an armful and carry them over to the big sledge so that babe could haul them thein down to 0 o the river and dump thern them in lie ile never was afraid of work paul was a good deal of a sportsman ills spec special lal pride was a shotgun that took four barrels of powder at a load lie ile vas very fond of roast goose and mighty few flocks of wild geese went over his bis camps without furnishing him a toothsome dinner dinder once on a bet paul killed hilled some 9 gecse se sa so high up in the air that they were spoiled by the time they got down too high remarked paul and he never would test his shotgun further of course when a chap Is like paul bunyan lie gets a lot of stories fastened on him that dont belong there Is that yarn about the winter on the onion odion river the snow was awful deep that season and after paul bad finished cutting and the spring cams came along he found that hed have to go over the ground again the snow was so deep that his sawyers had been cutting 30 feet above the ground paul and his men were no such chumps ns as that then theres the story that blames paul fur for catching off the real big catfish in the mississippi they say he be used to strip a big pine on the bank tie a hawser to its top bait ills his hook with a live porker chain half a dozen big pines to his tree rod in case lie he should get a big cat and let her go the worst of it was that when he did get a real big one and it went down stream for a hundred miles or so paul always ran along the bank till he be caught up then hed bed wade out and get his fish sometimes somebody fastens jim bridgers stories on paul bunyan the obsidian cliff the boiling spring the alum creek and the echo camp but jim bridgers claim to these master pieces Is generally acknowledged |