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M AlO G r I 1 ran t s i PAUL BUNYAN I II II I t f c I 4 1 fr r Nt 1 t S 4 L Lx x 1111 4 i K r i t R F ECOS PP t w u- u All lr llon h Eben il Ien hr fn from ron here Angerlean American II by I lib Shay the oropa By ny ELMO SCOTT WATSON Olt Ott many manly many years Cabs Americans have hal had to look to European sources s fur for a n certain type of Imaginative F fT O native tales to tales to the German Grimm and Butt the tho Danish Andersen for their fairy tales lilies and to the tile Greeks the Unmans and the Scandinavians Scan for tor their legends ls and myths It IIII has been only within DO ao recent years urs that they have die covered eO that their native land Is rich In III folk lure lorI some of ot which th they zany may have o learned as it was passed ulon along by Iy word of ot mouth but tint little of ot which has hns hereto toro fore b been n collected 1 11 Bud and published In book hook form forts So the recent publication of ot Frank Shays Shay's Heres Audacity Aull 1 American t Legendary He lie roes foes by bv the 1 V i la Is v on nn nt iv fIt nn nt ne 10 to Iho e ho want lade Matie in Amer Atter ica myths and le legends In the Introduction Sir Mr Shay tells II how Amer Alnee- kuns cans like other oilier people lolle create Ialo their giants In their own Image and endow them with powers pow ers us greater than their own Ve WI are an en In Inv nation therefore our heroes are lire audacious audacious auda auda- cious clous Industrialists In the North and Northwest Northwest North North- west the hero Is Paul n the lumberjack In 11 West t Virginia he U Is a again a 8 lumberjack but his name Is Tony TOlly 1 leaver lr cr In the t Southwest lie he becomes s a n cowboy boy and changes his name to Pecos llos Hill In Virginia he Is a n negro a n sled sled- drivIng man John Henry II by name In the oil fields of t Texas Tens and Oklahoma he Is a rotary well digger and calls himself Kemp hemp Morgan On the railroads ho he b becomes a n mighty engineer and lies has won fame Cline ns as Casey Jones On the old windjammers he Is still Ih the same ll mighty superman super than man but his alias Is Old Old full tull name was Alfred Hull Bull top tel and lIIlI when he signed his Initials on In the ships chips log for his ills first t skipper that worthy looked him over r and said A t H H. S. S Able Able- Bodied Ity lIy your our size sire and strength lh they Should hould measure pleasure the talents of t all ull other sod sea men As for tor his size Stze the sailors disagree Some SOllie say that he heus was us fourteen fathoms talho tall lall and others that he was yes Jos four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of ot his nose nos' And he was liS fearless farll 11 too One d day Iris his It'll follow Callow ow sailors couldn't pull up ull the anchor An 11 octopus was wrapped rapped around It and was holding hollIng it tu fast t to 10 the ho bottom of ot the ocean Over the side went lIt old lId There was a n terrific struggle under the water and ond then thell he emerged l t After the Ihl anchor was safely fely shipped stripped asked Old OM what hilt he had hud done to I the hI octopus J Jas 11 tied 1111 his hll arms in to knots Double bends blId It'll take luke him a II month o 0 Sundays l to untie end em Hut But was never r satisfied lie Ile never nev nev- fr er T could find n ship big enough for tr him hint until finally lie III signed on board the Courser r Later I when a n new man mun was taken on the first thing 1 te 11 e saw when he hit the deck dk was a n stable full Cull of It horses for the Courser was so big that all and men then watch on were mounted on horses and rode rodl about their duties duill's on n them tan Man alive her ringing ln was Us so Immense e that no living man count could take her hr In III at lit a n single glance Her Iler masts the el clouds and the top sections wore were re on hinges so o they could be bent over o to let the sun and moon pas In pass Her sails vi vens ere so fil 1 big 1 that the builders had to take tuko all 1111 tie the able bodied able out In la the Sahara tle desert ert to find room to sew em III J Kemp tl p Morgan the Texas oil driller was like Old In lu that ho he too had to put Jut hingos In III throe three different places on ills his derrick derrickso so ru Hint t It could h In- In Infolded fI folded up lip to let ll tI the e sun m end tu I o u by ly It wa was as so td that hut It t thirty I rill II 1 to l 1 ti It ft it fui nii lulu u gulag going oln up ap fi tur uri ur- ur i 11 1 i MI hl 11 II i r down door II a II muo on out tip und and a A TONY t-IY t BE BEAVER In V Vir t f k J JOHN JoNN HENRY HENRY- Steel Driving Man man on Oil dul duty When he brought In his Ids well It pouted so hl high h the they hud had to put Iut a II roof root on n It U because St. St Peter Ieter anti and all nil the till angels were Ire raisin till nil h I h-I 1 about the oil that was through the floor of ot heaven n It took ok ten days for the oil nit to 10 reach the top hII mid and then It rained down o for three weeks Iks But Iut super man tint that he Ile was not all 1111 of ot Morgan's Morgans Mor gnus gan's wells veils Ills brought In oil Occasionally he got gota a u duster Iuster a II dr dry hole But Hut did he ht abandon 11 It It as liS did other drillers Not Kemp Morgan 1 I lie knew that no Kansas farmer could ever lr dig a n apost post hole In ills his hard bottom loll soli I. I lie would get his hands around his duster dusler hole holl and pull It up UI tour four feet at ut a n lIu tune time saw jaw faIt It of off and ship It to IC Kansas Ask sk any ony Kansas farmer what he hl thinks of ot the Kemp Morgan Portable Vest II Holes olt Hut But Kemp Morgan 1 wasn't the only lone Loue Star product I of ot note nolI There here was 1105 Pecos leos mil Hill milho who ho was vas lost b by his parents when he wa was l a Ii your year ur old and grew rew up UI among the catamounts and antI coyotes one hie olle day he wandered l title Into the Golden Colden Swan S saloon sa sa- loon and there net met a n cowboy who told him of It the Joys J's of or cow punching So 80 Bill 1111 decided to 10 quit being a n c coyote put on human bunion clothes it took lOk throe three coats and two pairs lairs of ot trou trousers pieced toUt out with three or four blankets and pieces of ot cowhide to 10 cover lr him and und became a n 10 cowboy bo No Xo horse hurte was stron strong enough to curry carry him so he caught a n huge bear and broke It to 10 ride And nd of ot course he lie became the greatest cowboy lit of f theta them all He Ill could uhl out any other 10 cowboy hoy he could rould outride nn any other cowboy ow boy and he lie could out drink nn any other cowboy 0 I. I boy Once rode a Kansas cyclone lie ire rude rode It through three states tall's until they got INt to California aud nod when the cyclone saw It couldn't throw him ll it rained out oUI from under him haul and that was eras what washed out the Cram r canyon came amI down Iown with Ith u II mighty mIght thud In California and the spot whore where hlf he lIe landed I Is now known II as ns heaths Death valley a 1 big hole holl In the ground till feet below sea level II Another mighty hl Texan was Strap Fuckner Buckner ho 10 went to that Male state with the first party part of ot settlers I. I led by Stephen hlll I F. F Austin Strap had the pleasant pleas ant custom of ot knocking men ell down with Ith a II blow between the eyes ets which he would do 10 In the mot most friendly and courteous IS manner and with no Intention In Inv of ot harming them II He lit knocked oJ down his fr friends and his enemies he knocked down Indians In In- and grizzly bears und and 1 wildcats II Is and buffalo nut But the greatest tight in which he be ever Iver En engaged al' al 1 was as Ills battle with the Devil and In that fight for tor once ont in III hU life he was defeated Since Strap Buckner was ns a 11 heavy y drinker the tho about him are something In the nature of ot moral allegories alle nIle gories and the Devil r with whom whore he bo fought and I by ly I whom hOln he hI was WIS worsted was the Demon heulon Hum num Of him hm Mr lr Shay h hI ty sa says o trap Strap Buckner Joins the CI a r artily army of a rs lie Ito w will ill be lot likened to ton Aiu n 11 the glut Ial t on Stran who had th the stroll h of it t thirl thirty wea Elan 11 ad aJ whose cudgel ud tl was wan the 7 I solid trunk of ot nn an oak ak tree The Tower of ot Piss Pisa lost Its perpendicularity by Iy the weight of ot this giant leaning against t t It It Whole books have hU b en written about Bunyan the super lumberjack so of ot course coure he pets gets Ils con considerable space In Heres Audacity 1 I Most lost of ot the facts about hi hug his youth arid anti his logging operations on the HI Big Onion river In Michigan 1 are well known Rut Hut some of ot the other nets facts about his life as ns given by hy Mr Ir Shay hay seen seem to be new For Instance after utter he used Labe Habl the Blue Ox 11 Babe Habl you ou remember r measured forty axe handles dandles and a n plug of Star tobacco between the yes Jes to 10 straighten out a n winding logging road Paul discovered disco that he had fourteen miles of ot road left over O So he roll rolled roiled ell up the fourteen miles and sold It to the city of ot Chicago for tor a n boulevard And It Is s one of ot the shameful things about that wicked city elly that they tiler calf calt It t 5 iu U. U i U III in ot 1 ui I me I Mine from i it came ame and not Paul I boulevard In honor of t the greatest t lumberjack that ever lr lived I Then there thre was the time that Jim Hill lilli till the builder of ot the Great Northern railroad decided to build a n barbed wire fence along the right right-of- way 11 to keep the tramps oft off hH ills trains St So he gave e a the joh Job of ot building the l 1 mlle OO fence to Paul He Ile soon found that it was going oln to take too long to get It through w with Ith the work so he sent Fent up to Montana 1 to a n man who had trained gophers for tor two thousand post hole Ring gins gophers Then he sent nn an order to another man loan who ho specialized In leavers beavers and ordered the live hundred of ot these animals lie He set t the heavers beavers to work cutting six Inch trees Into six foot lengths and set It tile gophers to holes boles work digging ln The gophers were Irl Innocent and anti when hen one had digging dicing his hol hole he prepared to 10 make It his home Then Ill I'll Paul ul would come cOllie III along on with a Io post t in III one land hand drag Ira the replier gopher out Jut of ot his hole hale with Ith one hand haul and Shove sho I the pO post 1 in There Tiler was nothing for tor the poor gopher to do but to begin work on a new home The fhe gophers got cot pretty mad mud tint lout who cares what a 1 gopher thinks Paul didn't and ond he got ot his bis fence done In plenty of ot time As for tor Tony Heaver Beaver in In Vest est Virginia Ih they will 11 tell you that y Tony Tuny who carries on his logging log log- King ging operations on I l el 1 rh r Is as great a II lum lum- lumberman berman as os Paul Bunyan Hut But logging wasn't Vant his only Interest he lie W was I al also o a gro grower r of t the biggest t watermelons in the world which big that h by whittling out Iut the Insides were werl so cutting doors and windows lo los s und building tire fire places and allowing the rinds to dr dry out in the sun th they made wonderful houses y As ts for the other super Americans one Is black blak and the other Is Ii red There here Is U John negro lIero steel driving III man who was so Henry fa the his 1 12 fast t with pound hammer that he hI hIns was ns known to 10 out lut two handl handles In wear one shift and to ha have han a n L boy with a pull pall of ot cold he Ile always III had 1 by water standing so 10 that he could keep kePI his big hammer r cool Hut But when steam driven n drills came eane on the John Henry lared that market such new in in- were not necessary He lie sail said he heat beat a steam sh drill and in could a n contest that wa was specially lIy he did heat beat It Hut he himself lf killed in doln doing it for after the over r Jolla John Henry contest Wa he diM died laid U down Wn U Ms UThen hammah nn an Then o there Is I the American Italians Indians of ot whom Hercules of the Hiawatha It was Vas I who wrote In with tobacco kindled It filled died his pipe pine with fand f- f n a bolt of ot lI lightning and then t emptied the live life coals rollis the into late the the For or three days he ire did dit this thU and se sea du day there thel r r- r r s. s u up p an t N Ill on I is the f ri fourth n II i sir lid now no known le rIt t ot of tares Iwa 1 T iii i r r r I i r th J. 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