ÿþ<html> <head> <TITLE> Paul Bunyan Tall Tales Pg.11, The Bean Soup Lake</TITLE> <STYLE type=text/css> A:hover {TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:link {TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:visited {TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:hover,a:active {TEXT-DECORATION: none} </style> <STYLE type="text/css"><!-- A:link{color:gold;cursor:hand} A:visited{color:gold;cursor:hand} A:active{color:gold;cursor:hand} A:hover{color:white;cursor:hand} --></STYLE> <script> <!-- Hide Script function move_in(img_name,img_src) { document[img_name].src=img_src; } function move_out(img_name,img_src) { document[img_name].src=img_src; } //End Hide Script--> </script> </head> <BODY text="black" background="images/mackinawg.png"> <BR> <center> <font color="gold"> <B> C<font size="-1"> H A R L E S &nbsp&nbsp</font>E .&nbsp&nbsp B<font size="-1"> R O W N</font></B><BR> <font color="gold"> <B>P<font size="-1"> A U L &nbsp&nbsp</font>B<font size="-1"> U N Y A N &nbsp&nbsp</font>T<font size="-1"> A L L&nbsp&nbsp</font>T<font size="-1"> A L E S </font></b></FONT> </TD> <font color="gold"> </FONT><BR> <BR> <center> <!-- *** MAIN TABLE *** --> <table align="center"> <!-- *** X CELL 0 *** --> <TD width=0></TD> <!-- *** ? 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CELL 3 ? *** --> <TD> <TABLE border=3 STYLE="table-layout:fixed" WIDTH=800> <COL WIDTH=400><COL WIDTH=400> <!-- *** ### CELL 3 TABLE ### *** --> <!-- *** ILLUSTRATION *** --> <TD height=571 align="center" bgcolor="#bfbf80"> <table><td><a href="images/paul_vs_bunyan.png"><IMG SRC="images/paul_vs_bunyan.png" width=345 height=431 border=0 align="top" alt="Paul Bunyan."></A></td></tr></table> </td> <!-- *** TEXT *** --> <TD height=571 align="center" bgcolor="#bfbf80"> <table><td width=350> <DIV STYLE="font-size : 8pt; font-family : Georgia"; align="justify"><BR> <B>THE PYRAMID FORTY</B> At Round River, in section 37, there was a forty shaped like a pyramid, with a heavy growth of timber on all of its sides. To see to the top "took a week." It was "as far as twenty men could see." Bunyan and his crew labored all one winter, "the winter of the blue snow," to clear it. From It they cut one hundred million feet of timber. Some of the men got one short leg from working all winter on one side of the slope.<BR><BR> <B>FORTY JONES EXPLOIT</B> One day Forty Jones, the straw boss, saw some deer tracks near the river. He watched for them and at night when they came to drink removed the key-log from a pile of logs forty feet high, which rolled down hill and killed two hundred of the herd. The camp then had enough venison to last all winter. <BR><BR> <B>THE BUCKSKIN HARNESS</B> The barn boss made a harness of the hides for the blue ox. Later Pink-eye Martin was hauling in logs for firewood. When he started with his load it began to rain and the buckskin to stretch and when he reached camp the ox was beside him but the load was still down in the woods. He tied the ox and went in to dinner. While he was eating the sun came out very hot, dried the harness and hauled the logs to camp.<BR><BR> </div><DIV STYLE="font-size : 8pt; font-family : Georgia"> <BR><B>LITERATURE</B><BR> Ê% Douglas Malloch; James MacGillivray. (1914, April 25). "The Round River Drive." <I>American Lumberman</I>. pp33.<BR> Ê% K. B. Stewart; H. A. Watt. (1916) "Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack." <I>Transactions Wisconsin Academy of Sciences</I>.<BR> Ê% The Red River Lumber Co. <I>Tales About Paul Bunyan.</I> V. I and II.<BR> Ê% Esther Shepherd. (Dec, 1921.) "The Tall Tale in American Literature." <I>Pacific Review</I>. <BR><BR><I>Page Eleven.</I></div></font></td></tr></table> </td> <!-- *** ? CELL 3 ? *** --> </table> </TD> <!-- *** ? CELL 4 *** --> </TD><TD WIDTH=100 valign="center"><center> <a href="index.htm"><font size="7">º%</font></A> <BR> <a href="index.htm" OnMouseOver="move_in('image2','images/lmbr2.png')" OnMouseOut="move_out('image2','images/lmbr1.png')"> <img src="images/lmbr1.png" border=0 hspace=0 alt="Move your mouse over here!" name="image2"> </a> </TD></TR> <center> </TD></TR> </table> <!-- *** ? ADVERTISEMENT ? *** --> <!-- *** ? 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