Paul Bunyan Tall Tales
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Paul Bunyan Tall Tales |
In
our fourth grade reading class we read "Paul Bunyan's Cornstalk," a story retold
by Harold Courlander. As you may remember from stories you read about this
famous lumberjack, Paul Bunyan never did anything in a small way. In "Paul
Bunyan's Cornstalk," he planted a vegetable garden that caused a terrible
drought. The corn and pumpkin roots he planted in his garden soaked up all the
water for over 60 miles around. With the help of Babe, the blue ox, Paul was
able to pull out the pumpkin vine. To stop the cornstalk from growing, however,
he had to climb the stalk (which took him two and a half days) and lob off the
top.
We learned that one of the things that makes a tall
tale "tall" is exaggeration. Adventure and humor are also distinguishing
characteristics of tall tales. We wrote our own tales about Paul Bunyan.
To our visitors: please keep checking this page. More tales will be added in the very near future.
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Paul Bunyan and Babe Create
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One day Paul Bunyan and Babe his blue ox, wanted to plant trees. They picked the best spot ever but it had a whole bunch of trees already there so before he could plant any new trees. Then Paul cut down the old trees that were in his spot where he wanted to plant trees. After he got done cutting trees down he needed to dig holes next. But he did not have a shovel. So he called “Babe”and Babe came and after Babe got there Paul hooked Babe up to a plow and Babe took off so fast and Babe’s feet hit the ground so hard and the plow did to it made the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was 4 miles wide and 200 miles long and that's how Babe made the Grand Canyon. |
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Babe and Paul Create the
Grand Canyon and the Colorado River
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Once upon a time Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack, and Babe the blue ox, went to
the Southwest to plow where some trees of Paul’s used to grow. The next morning they went to where the trees grew. Paul hooked Babe up to the plow. Babe took off so quietly and was so quick that he was like a bolt of lightning. Before Paul even knew it Babe was gone. Paul turned around and there, directly behind him was a very deep hole. He said, “Hey, I can make something out of this.” “I can make it the Grand Canyon.” “Well you know I have such a wonderful hole here that I just need to add water.” “But what if I had the Colorado River run through the Grand Canyon.” Paul thought and thought and came up with an idea. “I know, he said. “I a-a-a-a-choooo” Paul sneezed. When he opened his eyes there was hole from sneezing. “Aha this can be my Colorado River. All I have to do is add a little water and then it will be good as new. That’s how Babe and Paul made the Grand Canyan and the Colorado River. |
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Paul Bunyon wanted to clear a spot of lumber that was miles around to sell to settlers. But he couldn’t find a spot to clear so he walked for miles around the United States. He finally found a spot in Minnesota. He chopped all the trees down in five hundred swings. They all fell and made a huge hole the size of a whizzpopperwhopper. Which now is the Great Lake Superior. |
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One day Paul was in the city. Chad, Paul’s nicest best friend, told him to
turn around as fast as he could for five minutes. So Paul did. Suddenly a
funnel cloud was right above Paul’s head. Soon Chad got picked up by the
funnel cloud, spun around, and dropped into Lumberjack Paul Bunyan’s hands.
The tornado was wrecking the town badly. Chad said to blow as heavily as he
could to that 300 acre field. After Paul blew the tornado, it made an
enormous hole. Paul called it the Sonoran Desert. |
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Paul Hits a Tornado |
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One snowy day the lumber jacks
and the cook at the lumber lodge were bored. The cook wanted to play
Sequence because he always won. The others said they didn’t want to play the
game. Paul had a good idea . He suggested they all work together to make a
top. The others agreed that they had a problem. No one knew how! |
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Paul Bunyan |
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the lumberjacks were sitting in a cave in Arizona. It was misty. Paul
thought of an idea. He said. ’’Lets play 10 pines.’’ All the other lumberjacks said, “How do you play that?’’ Paul replied, ’’You take a boulder and you find a group of 10 trees. Then you roll the boulder like bowling.’’ Then Paul got a bullseye. The boulder rolled down the hill which created the Dust Bowl. |
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Paul in the Grand Canyon |
| One day Paul decided to go to the Grand Canyon to have a picnic. When he got there he was going to eat, but there were ants on his food. They must have gotten on the food when he set it down to go to the bathroom. He went home to pack another lunch to eat. This time he ate right away, and when he was done he decided to walk around to take pictures. Then he accidentally burped so loud he broke five trees at one time because of the smell. The roots of all the trees, the grass, and all the bark on the trees died, too. He felt bad, so he decided to never go anywhere where there were trees. That’s why there are no trees in the Grand Canyon! |
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Paul Bunyan Creates the Sonoran
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upon a time there were five friends Paul Bunyan, Chad, Trever, Sean, and
Zach G. Paul was a huge lumberjack, Chad climbed the World Trade Center,
Sean played spike ball with Trever, Zach G. ran 10,000 miles without
breaking a sweat. One day Paul decided to go to Arizona, he ran there. It
took two hours. when he got there he cut down ten trees and burped. He had
such bad breath he killed all the trees there and created the Sonoran
Desert. After one thousand years the Sonoran Desert filled up with sand and
created the Sonoran Desert Two.
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How the Sky Got
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| Once upon a time whose was man named Paul Bunyan. He had an ox that name Babe and he was blue. Paul and Babe had 5 friends .Their names were Kiley, Briana, Kelsey, Jozy and the townspeople. One day babe and his friend where jumping on the trampoline. They bounced babe so high he got stuck up in the sky. Then it rained and washed the blue away from Babe skin that’s how the sky got blue. They tried to get Babe down, but he didn’t want to come, so Paul had to go up and get him .He went up and bang Babe by his ear |
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How Paul Made
the Dust Bowl |
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Paul was busy chopping trees for the Lumberjack Company. The weather was not
good this season. It was hot one day and cold the other. So wouldn’t you
know Paul caught a terrible cold. Paul walked home and his best friend Fred
was standing in the window. Fred was a lumberjack, too. Paul and Fred meet
on there first lumberjack meeting. Fred yelled, ’Paul do you feel ok?” Paul yelled, “Oh, it’s nothing just a little cold.” Paul walked in the door sneezing and coughing and went immediately to bed. The next day, Lars, the cook baked Paul pancakes for breakfast. Paul said, “Thanks,’’ and left. Again Paul came home sneezing and coughing. This time Fred said in a very strong voice, “Paul, you are staying home today and staying in your nice warm bed”. Lars, the cook, said, “You should drink this corn syrup your cold might go away.’’ The next day Paul sneaked outside and his nose had a tickle in it and his throat did to. And before he knew it, he coughed and sneezed at the same tie and went flying into the air and stared the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma. Fred was awakened by the big sound and yelled “Paul, get in your bed right now!’’ Lars the cook tried giving Paul soup. That didn’t work either. He tried coffee and Vitamin C but that didn’t help. All of a sudden Lars said, “I’ve got it!” He poured all these things into a bowl and fed it to Paul. Paul was better. Fred let Paul go out to cut down trees again. |
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Paul Bunyan Tall Tales
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upon a time Paul Bunyan, the greatest biggest man who ever lived, was
participating in his job for the most famous Lumber Jack Company in the
world. All of a sudden, his partner Babe, the big blue ox, appeared from the middle of nowhere. He came up to Paul, and suddenly he was gone. Paul looked around searching for Babe. He saw Babe leaving hundreds of tornados behind her because she was running so hard from her enormous hooves and it formed a huge trench and it caused water to leak in the trench. Paul chased after her for thousands of miles. Finally Babe almost reached the Golf of Mexico, a huge body of water. Babe wasn’t looking in front of her and then she hit the Golf of Mexico. She stopped in shock because she didn’t think she would of made it that far. Paul was about to catch up to her when Babe fell to the ground because she was exhausted. Paul looked around at the beautiful ocean. He could see the sunset all pink and yellow, so then he decided to go home and he lifted up Babe and carried her home. Paul said to himself " I am going to call this river The Mississippi River," and they lived happily ever after. |
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How Paul Made the Dust Bowl |
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Paul Bunyan was chopping long-stemmed sequoias. He was so powerful he could
chop 25 trees at one time. After 25,000 trees he saw a sign it said “Ox
riding competition April 15.” Paul wanted to go to the ox riding competition
so he was rushing to his cabin calling “Babe. Babe. Babe. Babe.” |
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How the Sky Got Blue!!! |
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Once upon a time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox were jumping on a
trampoline. They started to play Pop Corn. It was Babe's turn to be in the
middle. Paul jumped as high as he could. That sent Babe up, up, up into the
sky until Babe was out of sight. Before that day, the sky was purple. That
is until Babe went flying through the sky at 96 mph. The sky turned blue
because Babe the Blue Ox was blue and he was so big. When the townspeople
saw it, they thought it was a shooting star. When Brittany, Jozy, Kelsey,
and Kiley saw it they knew it was Babe because Babe was Kiley's friend. They
were trying to find a way to get Babe down. Kelsey cried out "It is impossible!!!" All of a sudden Brittany said, "Just make Paul Bunyan, the tallest guy alive, go get Babe because Babe is his pet, so that would make total sense!!!" Brittany said, "Just think about it for a while." Jozy thought Paul could just use a ladder to get Babe down. Kiley said, "Yes, I'll go get my dad and his ladder." "Your dad...why???" asked Jozy. Kiley said "Didn't you know that Paul Bunyan is my dad???" Brittany, Jozy, and Kelsey said "No we didn't know that!" So my dad, Paul Bunyan got Babe down eventually. Then everything was back to normal, except that Paul Bunyan was still my dad!!! |
One Day Paul Was in the City
