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PAUL BUNYAN                              

Paul Bunyan was a strong baby who liked to pull down trees he would not be aloud to pull down trees but he did anyway. The neighbors yelled, “Get out of our yards and stop pulling on the trees.”

  There was so much complaining that his parents threw him in the harbor. His parents said, “Good luck, son.” He rocked around and made waves go up and destroyed houses.

Paul grew up as a boy he raced with the deer and wrestled with the grizzlies. One day he found an ox in the snow and named it Babe. They both grew a giant size and they’re both very strong.

 Paul combed his hair with pine trees and shaved his beard with an ax one day he said goodbye to his parents and left. He was so sad he didn’t want to work. He was on a cliff and walked home dragging his ax. It cut the rock and made the Grand Canyon. He went home.

   About seven weeks later they made a whole city!!! There were giant pancakes but Paul was digging up the great lakes. It was a huge city with skyscrapers and homes for them.

         One day it snowed and Babe did not like it. It snowed a lot so Paul made Babe green sunglasses that made the snow look like green grass. They had so much fun that everybody had a party in the summer. They had a lot of fun making pancakes and dancing and swimming. But right now Paul is in Alaska helping out the lumber company.

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Paul Bunyan was born in the state of Maine.  Paul began to take trees down.  The neighbors screamed, “He’s crushing the church with a tree.”  An old lady shouted, “Get off my property you little scoundrel.”  His parents got complaints, so they anchored Paul in the harbor.  Paul rocked his cradle and made huge waves.  Paul and his parents moved to the backwoods where life would be more peaceful.  Paul played in the woods with the bears and raced with the deer.  He was so fast that he could blow out a candle and be in bed before the room became dark.

    Paul found an ox in some blue snow and named him Babe.  Paul and Babe the blue ox grew at an enormous rate because Paul rescued Babe.  Paul and Babe really helped out in the family logging business.  Paul grew a beard and combed it with the top of a pine tree.  Paul decided to get a crew and head west.  He hired legendary woodsmen like Big Tim-Burr, Hard Jaw Murphy, and the 7 Hacket Brothers.  He also hired kitchen workers to make flapjacks.  Paul and his workers cut down all the trees in their way.  Some gumberoos snatched some woodsmen.1.  Paul blew a thunderous note into the gumberoos cave determined to knock the meanness right out of them, so they wouldn’t snatch any more woodsmen.  The gumberoos snatched all of the woodsmen.  There was a terrible fight.  The fight was finished soon.  The gumberoos got so tangled up, want to know how long it took for them to untangle themselves?  They were so tangled up it took them 6 weeks to untangle themselves and they were never seen again.

1. For those of you that don’t know what a gumberoo is I’m here to help.  A gumberoo is  a green ogre that lives in the ground.  They also like to cause mischief and other things like that.  They like to snatch people.  These are some of the characteristics of mostly all the gumberoos.

      Paul hired more woodsmen on the way.  Since the cooks couldn’t flip flapjacks fast enough the woodsmen complained, “Hurry up you cooks we’re starving.  The cooks complained back, “We can’t flip flapjacks fast enough.”  Paul solved the problem by making a giant griddle that blasted flapjacks the size of football fields into a neat stack beside it.  Paul then took a few days off to dig the Great Lakes and a river.  He did this so they could get maple syrup from Vermont.  When they ate the flapjacks they had so much energy they cut down every tree in sight and made the Great Plains.  The lumberjacks also cleanly shaved the slopes of the Rock Mountains.  They could have shaved the peaks off the Rocky Mountains if a blizzard hadn’t set in.  The blizzard continued for several years.  The blizzard colored all of the mountains white.  All the crew burrowed into their bunkhouses and hibernated.  Babe was so depressed Paul got the blacksmith to make some sunglasses for Babe.  The blacksmith made BIG green sunglasses for Babe.  When Babe saw the world through the green sunglasses, he thought he had stumbled into a field of clover.  Babe ate so much of the snow that the treetops reappeared.  The rest of the snow melted and the sun came out.  Then they invited all the new settlers to a party of all the holidays they missed over the several years they were covered with snow. 

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Paul was the biggest baby in all of Maine. Before he could even talk he gave a great interest in the family logging business . He went around the neighborhood pulling trees out of peoples’ yards when he did he would yell “ Timber.” Paul’s parents got so many complaints they had to anchor his cradle to the harbor. This plan worked …for a little, until Paul started rocking his cradle and stirring up waves.

            After Paul’s parents had paid for the damage, they decided to move to the forest. Paul loved his new home, he made lots of friends with the raccoons and birds. He also wrestled with the bears and raced with the deer. Paul was so quick on his feet he could blow out a candle and be in bed before the room got dark.  

              One morning Paul awoke, he looked outside to see a blanket of snow on the ground, but he still had to go outside to get the wood for the fire. As Paul was coming back he heard a soft moan coming from a snowdrift. Startled by the noise Paul ran over to the snowdrift to find a freezing baby ox in the snow. He adopted the ox and named her Babe. Paul and Babe proved to be a great help in the family business.

                 When Paul was seventeen he grew a fine beard which he combed with the top of a pine tree. By that time millions of settlers were moving into the Maine woods, Paul thought he should be off so he said goodbye to his Ma and Pa and set out for a logging life. 

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Paul Bunyan was born in Maine. When Paul Bunyan was born he weighed 156 pounds! Paul Bunyan helped out in the family logging business by ripping trees out of the ground when he was not allowed to.  So they anchored his cradle to the harbor. Then he started rocking his cradle and caused a giant tidal wave. Paul Bunyan lifted a whale and raced with the deer when he moved to the wilderness. Paul Bunyan combs his beard with the top of a pine tree.

   One winter Paul Bunyan found an ox and named her Babe. Babe helped out in the family business. Paul Bunyan made the Rocky Mountains by putting rocks in a big pile. 

      Paul made huge pancakes and some landed of target and landed in the city. They used a giant stove to make the pancakes. A lot of people helped like the cooks, and the men.            

Paul Bunyan built a huge bunk bed and his men used parachutes to get out of the bunk bed. Paul Bunyan fought a giant Snake and tangled it up in a knot.

     While cutting down trees, Paul Bunyan’s men were taken by ogres. Paul Bunyan wrestled with a bear and the bear did not lay a finger on him.  Paul Bunyan builds the Great lakes and the St. Lawrence River by just digging holes and Paul and his logging crew go swimming. He made the Grand Canyon by dragging his ax because he was sad. Paul Bunyan said to Babe ”Babe you’re my best pale and I don’t want you to leave. Babe said” erhhed”. And Paul said, “ What’s that suppose to mean. “ And they lived happily ever after. 

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This story is about a baby who weighed 156 pounds was born 6;25 am  on  July 4th.  His name was Paul Bunyan. In this story Paul met an ox and Paul named him Babe, He is one of the main characters in this story, too. Paul was the strongest, smartest, and largest baby ever born in the state of Maine.

Even before Paul learned how to talk he was in logging business. When Paul got older he played with his friends which are deer, grizzly bears. He wrestled with the grizzly bears and raced with the deer.

Paul’s next job was to build camp houses. PAUL and his friends were building houses when  ogres started to  pull Paul  and his friends into a big rock pile. Paul and his friends fought for six weeks and then came out.  Paul ‘s next job was to build bunkhouses for his friends.  How they got up was parachutes.

Paul’s next job was to make flapjacks for his friends. The game is sort of like hockey. The pucks were oranges, and the skates were pieces of bacon. The helpers greased the skating rink even though it was a pan. After that Paul decided to dig the Great lakes. After that the next thing on Paul’s list was to level the Great Plains and shave off slopes of the Rocky Mountains.  After that Paul noticed that it started to blizzard it covered Paul and Babe until their heads stuck out of the snow.

So they went up to the bunkhouses and hibernated. Then all of a sudden spring appeared. Paul invited settlers and all other people to celebrate all of the Holidays they had missed. Then Paul began the journey again with the blistering sun the Texas varmit. They did not think it would be that big of a problem. While crossing the Arizona griddle the batter evaporated.

Paul’s great ax fell to the ground. Paul and that gigantic hole is known today as the Grand Canyon. When Paul crossed the desert the sun hit the barn and an  explosion of popcorn went  everywhere . The popcorn was with Paul and his crew until reached California and crossed the Pacific Ocean. After Paul crossed the county some say he gave up lumbering and searching for areas to look for wildness. Babe still went everywhere

With Paul they traveled together. Paul and Babe had a nice life together. Paul was the most amazing person in the whole wide world!

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Paul Bunyan

      Once upon a time there was a little infant and his name was Paul Bunyon. Well actually, he is a big, baby-a really big baby! He was born with a weight of 156 pounds. He was the largest, smartest and strongest baby to ever be born in the state of Maine.

     Before he talked, Paul already showed an interest in the family business. He took the wagon around the neighborhood collecting trees. Let’s just say that the town wasn’t exactly the same after he took down some of the trees. People complained so much about him cutting down their trees that Paul’s parents anchored him into the harbor. All was good till Paul started to rock the cradle back and forth, back and forth, and started making big waves. After all the damage done to the town Paul’s parents had to pay for the damage. After they paid for it, they moved to the back woods where their life is going to be more peaceful until Paul has another one of his accidents again Paul loved to live in the woods. He made friends real soon. Paul played with his friends (the deer and the grizzlies) a lot.  He raced with the deer and wrestled with the grizzlies .It is amazing but he was so fast that he could blow out a candle and jump into bed before the room became dark.

One morning Paul woke up and looked outside .He noticed that there was snow on the ground.  Paul heard a moan coming from outside and when he looked closely there he saw a baby ox calf. Paul wanted to keep him so he did and he named it Babe. Paul and Babe grew really fast, Babe never lost the color of the snow .As years pasted Babe and Paul proved to be really good at the family business. Paul grew an awesome beard especially since he is only seventeen. You know what he does to comb it? He used the top of a pine tree! Now the settlers are starting to enter Maine woods and Paul decided to move on.

   He headed west but before that he said good-bye to his parents. Paul wanted to cross the country with the best lumbering crew he could get. He hired Ole, a celebrated blacksmith, and two famous cooks, Sourdough Slim and Creampuff Fatty. He then signed up legendary lumbermen like Big Tim Burr, Hardjaw Murphy and the seven Hackett bro’s (brother’s).

Paul decided to move on from the town because it is starting to get really crowded from the pioneers .So he put the houses on wheels so that Babe could pull the houses. But on the way they ran into some trouble-the ogres! The ogres started pulling them down into their under ground home. Once they were captured it took them 6 weeks for them to untangle themselves.

Paul’s next mission is to clear out the forest in the Midwest .He hired armies of woodsmen to build bunkhouses. The boys got to bed by hot air balloons and down to breakfast by Para shot down to breakfast in the morning. The cooks couldn’t flip flapjacks fast enough to make the newcomers happy. To make the problem solved, Paul built a colossal flapjack griddle .The surface was greased by kitchen helpers with slabs of bacon laced to their feet.  Every time the hot griddle was flooded with batter, it blasted a delicious flapjack high above the clouds, usually the flapjacks would land on largest but sometimes they would get off. 

Paul took a day or two off because he was going to dig the St. Larence river and the great lakes so that the barges of Vermont maple syrup could be brought to camp. Then when the men were leveling the Great Plains a blizzard came in . It didn’t stop till several years after!  Babe became so depressed that Paul asked Babe saw the world colored green, he thought he’d stumbled into a field of clover. He began eating the snow with such gusto that soon the treetops reappeared.

After the festival the lumberjacks continued their journey. Traveling became to speak longingly of being buried by a blizzard. With passing years Paul has been seen less and less frequently. However sometimes his great bursts of laughter can be heard rumbling like distant thunder across the wild Alaskan mountain ranges where he and Babe still roam.

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Paul Bunyan was born on July 4th at 6:25 A.M. He weighed 156 pounds. Paul was the strongest baby in Maine. He could pick up a cow and a tree at the same time. His neighbors got mad at Paul because he was picking up their apple trees. His mom and dad put him in the harbor. He got bored so he started to rock his cradle. Then Paul made a big wave and flooded the town. Paul’s family moved to the woods. Paul loved the wild life a lot. Paul Bunyan found a baby ox in the snow. Paul met some friends and they liked pancakes. Paul and his friends like to cut down trees, and then the ogres attacked. Paul’s friends fought the ogres. They won! Paul and his friends played hockey and made 2 huge flapjack griddles. They still cut down trees. Paul walked through snow in the cold. There was a 27-year blizzard. Babe the ox got sick and Paul and his friends helped him. In the summer Babe felt better. They celebrated every holiday that had been missed. They still made pancakes. Paul was a good person. He loved animals and took care of them when they’re sick. We love you Paul Bunyan.

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Paul Bunyan

This Tall Tale is about Paul Bunyan. Paul had a little log Business. When Paul was little he had to move where it was quiet. They had to move because he was doing too much damage.  Paul’s parents had to pay for all of the damage Paul made. Paul race with the deer and wrestled the grizzly bears. Paul’s parents threw Paul into the Great Lakes so that he would not damage anything. Paul was stronger then the grizzly bears. Paul was the smartest, strongest, and largest kid in Maine. Paul could pick up

anything like a whale or a tree. Paul took a lumber wagon and started to collect trees when he was older. When it snowed in December, Paul was outside and Paul said “ Oh

look a baby ox “ The color of the ox was blue. Paul named the ox babe. When Paul got older he combed his hair and beard with the top of a pine tree. There were so many people moving in that Paul said goodbye and set out for a logging life. That is the end of his younger life.                                                                                                                

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Paul Bunyan

This is a story about Paul Bunyan and how he dug the Great Lakes and how he made the Grand Canyon. I‘ll also tell you how Babe was saved by Paul Bunyan and how Babe became Paul’s pal.

Now Paul here was the doggon most smartest, biggest and strongest baby in the state of Maine. Even Paul had interest in the lumbering business before he could talk. He took down a big tree and he busted the church. After he did that his mom said “we have to do something so he won't cause any more harm." So they anchored him in the harbor. All was well until Paul stared rocking the cradle and making waves and floods.

After the parents paid for all the damage they moved to the wilderness. Paul loved the wilderness he was so fast he could blow out a candle and get into bed before the room got dark. One morning Paul found an ox out in the snow and named him babe. In the past years Babe never lost the color of the snow and Paul was a member of the lumbering crew.

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Once there was a baby named Paul Bunyan. He was a huge baby.He was over one hundred pounds. Paul had an obsession with cutting lumber.His family lived in the country.His parents kept getting so many complaints from having their trees cut down by paul.You can guess what happend next they yelled at him and lobbed him in the harbor.Then he created a huge tidal wave wrecking the whole town.When Paul was older in the winter he found a calf and named her Babe.Paul was a kid who was very strong very athletic.