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welcome to English practice [Music] stories many years ago Paul bunan was born in the northeastern American state of Maine his mother and father were shocked when they first saw the boy Paul was so large at Birth that five large birds had to carry him to his parents when the boy was only a few weeks old he weighed more than 45 kg as a child Paul was always hungry his parents needed 10 cows to supply milk for his meals before long he ate 50 eggs and 10 containers of potatoes every day young Paul

grew so big that his parents did not know what to do with him once Paul rolled over so much in his sleep that he caused an earthquake this angered people in the town where his parents lived so the government told his mother and father they would have to move him somewhere else Paul's father built a wooden cradle a traditional bed for a baby his parents put the Cradle in the water along the coast of Maine however every time Paul rolled over huge waves covered all the coastal towns so his parents

brought their son back to land they took him into the woods this is where he grew up as a boy Paul helped his father cut down trees Paul had the strength of many men he was also extremely fast he could turn off a light and then jump into his bed before the room got dark Storyteller Maine is very cold for much of the year one day it started to snow the snow covered Paul's home and a nearby Forest however this snow was very unusual it was blue the blue snow kept falling until the forest was covere

d Paul put on his snowshoes and went out to see the unusual sight as he walked Paul discovered an animal stuck in the snow it was a baby Ox Paul decided to take the ox home with him he put the animal near the fireplace after the ox got warmer his hair remained blue Paul decided to keep the Blue Ox and named him babe babe grew very quickly one night Paul left him in a small building with the other animals the next morning the barn was gone and so was Babe Paul searched everywhere for the animal h

e found babe calmly eating grass in a valley with the barn still on top of his back babe followed Paul and grew larger every day every time Paul looked babe seemed to grow taller in those days much of North America was filled with thick green forests Paul bunan could clear large wooded areas with a single stroke of his large sharp axe Paul taught babe to help with his work babe was very useful for example Paul had trouble removing trees along a road that was not straight he decided to tie one en

d of the road to what remained of a tree in the ground Paul tied the other end to babe babe dug his feet into the ground and pulled with all his strength until the road became straight Storyteller in time Paul and Babe the Blue Ox left Maine and moved West to look for work in other forests along the way Paul dug out the Great Lakes to provide drinking water for babe they settled in a camp near The Onion River in the state of Minnesota Paul's camp was the largest in the country the camp was so la

rge that a man had to have one week supply of food when walking from one side of the camp to the other Paul decided to get other Lumberjacks to help with the work his work crew became known as the seven Ax Men each man was more than 2 m tall and weighed more than 160 kg all of the axe men were named Elmer that way they all came running whenever Paul called them the man who cooked for the group was named souro Sam he made everything except coffee from sourdo a substance used in making sourdough b

read every Sunday Paul and his crew ate Hot Cakes each hot cake was so large that it took five men to eat one Paul usually had 10 or more hot cakes depending on how hungry he was the table where the men ate was so long that a server usually drove to one end of the table and stayed the night the server drove back in the morning with a fresh load of food Paul needed someone to help with the Camp's finances he gave the job to a man named Johnny inkslinger Johnny kept records of everything including

wages and the cost of feeding babe he sometimes used nine containers of riding fluid a day to keep such detailed records the camp was also home to sport the reversible dog one of the workers accidentally cut sport in two the man hurried to put the dog back together but made a mistake he bent the animals back the wrong way however that was not a problem for sport he learned to run on his front legs until he was tired then he turned the other way and ran on his back legs Storyteller big mosquitoe

s were a problem at the camp the men attacked the insects with their axes and long sticks before long the men put barriers around their living spaces then Paul ordered them to get big bees to destroy the mosquitoes but the bees married the mosquitoes and the problem got worse they began to produce young insects one day the insects love of sweets caused them to attack a ship that was bringing sugar to the camp at last the mosquitos and bees were defeated they ate so much sugar that they could not

move Paul always gave Babe the Blue Ox a 35 kg piece of sugar when he was good but sometimes babe liked to play tricks at night babe would make noises and hit the ground with his feet the men at the camp would run out of the buildings where they slept thinking it was an earthquake when winter came babe had trouble finding enough food to eat snow covered everything all the blacksmith solved the problem he made huge green sunglasses for babe when babe wore the sunglasses he thought the snow was g

rass before long babe was strong and healthy again one year Paul's Camp was especially cold it was so cold that the men let their facial hair grow very long when the men spoke their words froze in the air everything they said remained Frozen all winter and did not melt until spring Paul bunan and babe left their Mark in many areas some people say they were responsible for creating Puget Sound in the western state of Washington others say Paul bunion and babe cleared the trees in the states of No

rth Dakota and South Dakota they prepared this area for farming Babe the Blue Ox died in South Dakota one story says he ate too many hot cakes Paul buried his old friend there today the burial place is known as the Black Hills whatever happened to Paul bunan there are lots of stories some people say he was last seen in a a or even the Arctic Circle another tradition says he still returns to Minnesota every summer it says Paul Moves In and Out of the Woods so few people ever know that he is there

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