Paul Bunyan

4.5

Paul Bunyan was born in North America and one day when he was three years old he fell down a mountain breaking 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.

It happened one spring that there was a very bad log jam on a river. The logs lay 70 meters high and over a mile long. No one could do anything with it. But when Paul and the Blue Ox arrived, Paul just said, “Stand back.” He put the big ox in the river in front of the jam and then began to shoot at him. It felt like a lot of flies biting him and the ox began to switch his tail. The tail went round and round and beat the water so hard that the river began to flow upstream. Of course, the logs went upstream too and soon the jam was broken. Then Paul called the big ox out of the river, and river and logs flowed downstream again as they should.