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One day the tote team bringing up a mammoth load of beans overturned near the spring and the beans fell into it. The teamster expected to be discharged for losing the beans. Joe, the cook, took some salt, pepper and pork and threw them in among the beans. So the camp had good soup all winter. The cook's assistants, however, were angry because each day they had to tramp three miles to bring soup to the camp. Another version of this tale says that the tote teamster was driving across a frozen lake with a load of peas when the ice suddenly thawed and the ox was drowned. Bunyan dammed the lake, fired the slashings on shore, and then, opening the dam, sluiced down the river to his men pea soup with an ox-tail flavor. When the men were working at a distance from the camp the cook got the soup to them by freezing it onto sticks and pieces of rope. <BR><BR> <B>WILD ANIMALS</B> Haunting the woods about the logging camps were numerous fabulous animals. 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