Show K F A M N ar TA 4 ca A ao e 1 7 t 14 AUL BUNYAN AN ot of course i you know all about him I 1 K no why chats too bad i that means us that you youve ve never been i around in the f big forests s of the west and aest the lumi ber lacks never ever tire of 0 talking about out his bis big do ings and if you ou dont 1 know about paul and ills doings probably you nener neer heard about trie the inter or of the blue snow no well too bad too nobody A jmems to be able to gl ame Kethe abe exact year of the winter of the blue snow but zt must imie haie been some time ago Aon anyway vay most of the stories about the owing of raul paul begin it was the winter inter of the blue snow y r know an raul pall in fam fact the winter of the blue snow may haie bae been as far back as the building of solomons temple in jerusalem and that must inave have been away back something like 1000 B C anyway when solomon to build he made a deil biti alt hiram king of tyre tor for acme ine who N hot ping big timbers berh ats you remi reint aber what solomon said to hiram now therefore a 0 thou that they hew we me cedar trees out of lebanon and my ken seri lints nuts shall be with thy servant serva nw and unto thee will I 1 give hire for thy servants according acco acce iding to all that thou appoint tor for thou that there Is not among us any that can skill to hew timbers like unto the Sidon lans and in the fifth and sixth chapters chapter of I 1 kings it Is written that hiran hiram gave solomon cedar trees and tie trees according to all his desire of course the one place for hiram to cut cedars of lebanon lay ready to hand band but alen 0 en it came to the firs hiram had to look around a bit finally he be decided that the country up around washington and oregon way ay 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 hiram hunted up paul bunyan and got him to go up there and straighten things out paul found it an easy job there was a lot of water nater lying around loose east of the cascades and in li just pulled the mountains apart so that the water could run down to tie sea capt robert gray of boston the first man to carry the american P og ag around the world discovered in IV 83 A D this river that paul made for king hiram and be called it the 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 difre difference rence between the two jobs the mississippi was an accident you see one season paul worked so hard had at ills hla lumbering that he got mighty thirsty so lie took his spade and cast an eye about for a likely spot epo 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 ft here lie he was logging one day a n tank fell oft off and sprung so wany many leaks that they left it lie ile where here it was as they care it if it did make the mississippi sis sippi well now to apt back to 0 o the lilua blue snow according to the lumberjacks lumber jacks who sit about the hg big stoe alter after dinter dinner after a hard days work in the woods the blue ble snow was mas quite soua son 3 considerable snow it had bad fallen so persistently and piled up s so 0 deep that all the camps were snowed in why if a lumberjack wanted to get to the cooks shanty for a snack between meals lie had bad to tunnel arid and ot of course logging had stopped I hello lello the camp the hall boomed like a clap of tt under it was MUS night dight and the men were sitting around the big stove in the living room A small gale came down the chimney and blew the ashes out on the lie floor still it was a pleasant friendly sort of hall at that can you take me in tor for the night boomed the lie great voice they told him to come la in presently the toe of 0 a great boot was mas shoving the snow away from the door well the man mail was taller than ten cook shanties sli antles so of course he be very well pet get through the door the stronger stranger seemed a bit disappointed but not at all discouraged and he song sang out all right boys im paul bol bunyan nyan and I 1 see ill have to build my own camp just pass me out a few bogs hogs to roast for my supper and ill go right to work paul bunyan bullyan was a nice looking fellow with a big black moustache and sparkling eyes he had with him babe ills ox that vas ras seven ax handles wide Iset herns and was constructed ted with a hinge binge in its middle so that it could get around corners and euins in the road and paul and babe were mere a sure enough tearo team before morning they hod had built a great camp so great that nobody ever succeeded in making the circuit of it ile he always died of old age before he be gut got around paul iau brought in a prize camp of lumberjacks lumber jacks they were so good at thelt their business liu siness that before the end of the first day they had cut off everything on the sections ions along the aher so the next nest day before breakfast paul had bad cabe babe haul away amay all the logged sections find haul hack back heavily timbered sections in their place all lumbe lumbermen you know filhe to work mork close to the alc rl r yes pauls men inen worked hard hut but he be fed them well of course were fond of pancakes pau cakes so paul told big ole the only man in the world strong enough to shoe babe to ox fix up a pancake griddle that would do the business right big ole did a good job the griddle was so big that thai on n foggy lay day you see across it and when hen it was going full blast paul lind had to get a dozen of ills well to lo tie sides of pork on oil their feet and skate around it to keep it greased and he fed ills hla men meat plenty of it it kept six teams buoy nil all rioter b hauling out pepper to season it with and when ahen it come came to prunes why aben paul served prunes for dinner lie had to set a gang to work with shovels tc clean up the prune pits paul baul was a mighty fellow ile he often loaned babe to a camp amp that was as behind in its work babe always got the job over ii in one day the big ox had to for it ft always alm m ays ate up tip all the fodder in the camp at its first meal paul when the breeb were extra big would tackle them licin himself hed alk up an armful and carry them over to the big sledge so that babe could haul them down doun to the river and dump them lu fu he never aas as afraid of at work paul was a good deal of a sportsman ills special pride was a shotgun that took four barrels of ponder lit at a load lie was mas very fond of roast goose and mighty few flocks of wild geese went over ills camps without ith furnishing him a toothsome dinner once on a bet paul killed some geese so high up in the air that they were ivere spoiled by the time they got do down n too high remarked paul and he never would test ills his shotgun further of course when a chap Is like paul bunyan lie he gets a lot of stories fastened on him that dont belong there Is that yarn about the winter on the onion river the snow was awful deep that season and after paul had finished cutting and the spring came along he be found that hed have to go over the ground again the snow was so deep that his sawyers had bad been cutting 30 feet above the ground poul paul and his men were no such chumps as that eliat theu then theres the story that blames poul paul tor for catching oft off the real big cattish catfish in the mississippi they say he used to strip a big pine on the bank tie a hawser to its top bait his hook kiili till a live porker chain half a dozen 11 lilg pines to his tree rod in case he I 1 hould get a big eat cat and let tier her go the worst of it was that when lie he did got get a real big one and it went down for a hundred miles or so paul it tays ran along the bank till he be caught up then hed bed wude wade out and get liis ills fish sometimes somebody fa fastens steni tim 11 i agers stories on paul dunyan bunyan the lie obsidian cliff the boiling spring the lie alu aluni m creel creek and abild the echo camp but jim bridgers claim to these maftei lleces Is generally lodged ledged |