![]() ![]() Sourdough Sam cooked up a Christmas feast. The Axemen found the tallest tree and decorated it with a star made of bread baked by Biscuit Slim. Paul carved an antler for Babe out of an oak tree. You know Paul Bunyan – no matter how cold the weather gets, there’s always time for a celebration! The camp got together and stitched a giant Santa suit for Paul out of his red blanket. In the middle of the Winter of the Blue Snow, it was holiday time. Paul looked into the ox’s eyes and proclaimed that they would be the best of friends. The morning after the blue snow, when Paul awoke, the ox had eaten all the hay out of his mattress – and his best slippers! Inside the giant mound of blue snow was a shivering baby blue ox! He took the baby ox back to camp. He noticed that a pair of blue ears was sticking out of each side of the mountain. Just then he heard a strange sound, like someone was saying “blue, blue”… “There was no mountain there before”, he thought as he climbed over it. Suddenly, he smashed into a mountainside. ![]() He began to gallop through the dollops and drifts of baby blue. Paul couldn’t believe that it was snowing blue snow! ![]() This snow was blue, blue like blue bubblegum ice cream. Soon it began to snow, but this snow was different. The wind smelled unusual, like cold cotton candy. A strange wind began blowing in from the North. One winter evening, he found himself staring across the Mississippi River, trying to see if he could find the Northern Lights. He was the only person or creature he knew of his size. Since they couldn’t go south, Paul’s friends settled back into camp, but Paul was restless.Īlthough Paul loved his work and his friends dearly, he often found himself feeling lonely and wandering through the forests. But the friends never did make it south for a holiday! Today the pile of earth that he made is called Mount Rainier and the river is called Round Lake. They even kept passing the place they left! Paul realized that the river they were on must be round! He leapt out of the boat and dug up the center of the river and threw the earth westwards. They saw the same islands and the same animals again and again. Before long, everyone began to notice the same trees and the same hills and the same rocks going by. He gathered all his friends: the Elmers, Ole Olafson the blacksmith, Sourdough Sam and Biscuit Slim the camp’s cooks, the accountant Johnny Inkslinger, the crewmen Ivan and Sergei, and Brimstone Bill, the crew foreman. Paul knew the winter was going to get bad, so as soon as he was well enough, he began to build a boat to travel to warmer climes. He had planned to go south, because that year when autumn turned cold, Paul came down with a giant-sized case of the flu. The strangest thing about the Year of the Two Winters was that Paul almost didn’t see it! It was also one of the best, for it was in the Year of the Two Winters that he found someone pretty magical. Now everybody knows it can get cold in the winter, but this is the story of the Year of the Two Winters.įirst there was the Winter of the Blue Snow followed by the Wicked Winter, and it was the strangest year Paul Bunyan ever saw. His logging team was called the Seven Axemen – each was over six feet tall sitting down and they were all called “Elmer” – even the women! Instead of holding the axe, the Elmers tied rope to the handles and twirled the blades around them like a circular saw. Paul loved turning trees into lumber and he could fell seven in one blow of his axe. It starts long before Paul Bunyan made the world’s biggest flapjack… and before he met his lifelong best friend.īy the time Paul Bunyan was a young man, he was running his own logging camp.Įverybody in America needed lumber to build houses, to make paper for books, and for flagpoles to hoist their flags. This story takes place in the woods in autumn. I never saw a purple cow… but Paul Bunyan had one. He would eat four dozen eggs for breakfast, and his flapjacks used so much milk that he had to get the giant purple cow Lucy to provide it. He was as strong as a tornado and had twice as much gumption.įrom the time Paul was a giant baby, folk knew he was special.īy the time he was a kid, he was as tall as a hemlock tree. Paul Bunyan was a giant of a man, the greatest lumberjack the world has ever seen. THE YEAR OF THE TWO WINTERS Forceful Feller Paul Bunyan in "Wicked Winter" A folktale with Babe the Blue Ox and Lucy the Purple Cow! ![]()
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