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Official Kids Mag www.kidscoop.com Vicki Whiting June/July 2020
For more than 150 years, loggers have told tall tales about Paul Bunyan—a giant who
helped shape the American frontier.
If what they say is true, Paul
Bunyan was born in Maine.
And he must have been a pretty
husky baby, too. When he was
only three weeks old, he rolled
around in his sleep and
knocked down four square
miles of standing timber!
It was so cold one
winter that all of the
snow turned blue.
Cows even gave
blue milk!
Paul found a baby ox
shivering under a blue
snowdrift. He adopted
the ox and named him
Babe. Babe and Paul
both grew and grew,
but the ox always
remained the color
of the blue snow.
Paul became
a logger. With
one swing of
his giant ax, he
could slice through
dozens of trees.
Settlers followed
Paul and set
up farms and
towns in the
cleared land.
Some say the
entire Midwest
was once covered
with trees until
Paul cleared it all!
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