Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox (Tall Tale)
A "tall tail" is an American story about a person that is larger than life. The descriptions are exaggerated-much larger than real life. -When American settlers began building the country they would gather together in the evening telling each other funny stories. The story of Paul Bunyan is such a story. -Paul Bunyon is the tall tale of a a lumberjack who, tradition says, cleared forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean. -Some people say Paul Bunyon was a creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes. Paul Bunyon was given credit for creating the Great Lakes. Others say the stories orginated from French Canada. -Paul Bunyon was born in the northeastern state of Maine. His mother and father were shocked when they first saw the boy that was so large that it took 5 storks to carry him to his parents. -When the boy was only a few weeks old, he weighed more than forty-five kilograms. -As a child he was always hungry. His parents n