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Show jj PaulBunton's jj jj New Year 11 eV f James Leva's Hays . I ri, V-l 'I If you could on y crack a 5 ji whole row of nuts at once!" J.-zlA "That s too much etiigicD-LSJ etiigicD-LSJ i-.eh." said I'ru-le Charlie opening anorher pecan. I ought .o toil yuu aho-jr Paul Bunyon's New Year's resolve." Poll and .li-n and Bub shouteI. Anything Any-thing about the giant wood cutteri 11 ij.-is j-n Ww Y'ear's d.rv. . . like this, the winter T the blue snow. V r. v he woul-in't wasie a speck of time or a single motion In e--i i Ami o'T he hiked, a mile at a step, to fetch his big bine ox and get busy." "Was that I lie time he plowed rhe Onind Canyon;" "No. Jim. he had to log off Nortb Dakota that ear. He bnrncsseil the - ox to his big tree shaver and made a new blade for It by breaking off the top of Iron mountain and hammering hammer-ing It out with his fist. Away they went, mowing trees. "Paul noticed whenever the blue or rested It stood swinging Its tail. So he strapped a great ax to the ox's rail and slopped him. after that, by a mil tree. "Back and forth went the tall, and whack, whack the great trees foil villi a mighty swish. And they went n cutting trees and not wasting a motion. "But the trees the ox cut down with ds tail fanned him until he began to nccze. Paul didn't think II would uirt the blue ox. but ho didn't want uch violent sneezes to waste. So me of his axtnen carved a gigantic voodon windmill and sot II In front f (he ox every lime they slopped "'Kcrchool Kerohoo!" the blue ox would snee-.e and 'whir" would go the windmill. Every lime It whirred It w-ould make Paul Bunyon's sawmill ut a hundred logs." "How could It:" Bob asked. "Oh. c:iy I Paul fastened il to the sawmill by radio." "Sure!" scorned Jim. "Rut." continued Uncle Charll--caching for another handful of nu' tlie snecre got worse and the Mm ox had to he put lo bed. Paul losl r work's work fetching h -t water ho! tics and porous plasters an aire square, before the ox was well. So he made his New Year's resolve oxer "lie whittled n tall pine Into s penholder, put In a fresh point, ami wrote In letters ten feet high. In book bigger than this house: "'1 resolve o leave well enoll.t' alone nnd not lr to do oor thing a' once,' " IV.,1,,11 Nrnp n CiO,.H I . . . |