Paul Bunyan was born in North America. One day, when he was three years old, he fell down a mountain and knocked down all the trees on it. Paul grew up to be a logger. He was a very big man, and nothing was too difficult for him.
The Blue Ox, the biggest ox in the world, was his best friend. Paul made Lake Michigan so that the ox could have water to drink.
One spring, there was a very bad log jam on a river. The logs were 70 meters high and over a mile long. No one could move them. But when Paul and the Blue Ox arrived, Paul said, “Stand back.” He put the big ox in the river in front of the jam and then began to help it move. It felt like a lot of flies biting the ox, and the ox began to move its tail. The tail went round and round and beat the water so hard that the river began to flow upstream. The logs went upstream too, and soon the jam was broken. Then Paul called the big ox out of the river, and the river and logs flowed downstream again as they should.
