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One winter it snowed blue snow for seven days and the ox lying down in it all winter was dyed blue. With the ox Paul dragged a whole house up a hill, then he dragged the cellar up after it. When he wanted to peel a log he hitched the ox to one end and himself took hold of the bark at the other. The ox pulled and out came the log "as clean as a whistle." The ox sometimes got into mischief. Once he broke loose at night and ate up two hundred feet of tow line. Sometimes he slipped in behind the crew, drank the water in the river and left the drive high and dry. Some of the lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota are in holes made by his feet. Bunyan had many other oxen. When strung out in a line if each took the tail of the other in his mouth they would stretch halfway across the state. Their yokes piled up made one hundred cords of wood. One day he drove his oxen through a hollow log which had fallen across a great ravine. When they came through he counted them and saw that several were missing. These, he found, had strayed into a hollow limb.<BR> <CENTER><B>BIG OLE</B></CENTER><BR> Big Ole was Paul's blacksmith at the Big Onion camp. He was a very powerful man and when he struck his anvil the ring of the metal could be heard in the next county. He alone could shoe the ox single handed. Once he carried two of his shoe's for a mile and sunk knee deep in the solid rock at every step. Every time the ox was shod a new iron mine had to be opened up. <BR><BR> </div><DIV STYLE="font-size : 8pt; font-family : Georgia"> <BR><I>Page Seven.</I></div></font></td></tr></table> </td> <!-- *** ? CELL 3 ? *** --> </table> </TD> <!-- *** ? 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