The Sugar Creek Gang Goes North by Paul Hutchens

Author:Paul Hutchens [Hutchens, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783965371712
Publisher: Otbebookpublishing
Published: 2018-02-11T18:30:00+00:00

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5

I WAS sitting there on a small log, looking at the extra beautiful sky, looking at it over the top of our camp fire, thinking about how the rays of the sun shooting up looked like a lady’s many colored unfolded fan or the tail of a fantailed pigeon, when Barry said, “One of the Sporting Clubs up here is offering a prize for the best original Paul Bunyan story... Here’s a chance for you boys to stretch your imaginations a little...”

Pretty soon we were all racking our brains to see if we could think of something about Paul Bunyan that nobody had ever thought of before, which Barry might decide was good enough to write about and send in to the contest... Different ones of us made up different things, such as: One time Paul Bunyan gave a wintertime party in a terribly big recreational center in Bemidji, and so many people answered his invitation and came that there wasn’t any place to hang their fur coats and other heavy coats, so Paul went out and blew on his horn and hundreds of great big huge antlered deer came running in from all directions, and Paul stood them up all around the outer wall of the building, each one of them facing the center, and the fancy ladies hung their fur coats and other kinds of different colored coats on the antlers, using them for what is called “costumers.” Those deer stood there patiently, without moving, with their kind eyes watching the skaters.

Everything was going fine, until somebody opened all the doors all around to let in some fresh air, and then all of a sudden, Old Babe, the blue ox came in and started lumbering around looking for Paul, and stamped his hoofs and snorted like a mad bull, and the people got scared and excited and the women started to screaming, and that scared the hundreds of deer, and they bolted for the doors in a terribly mad and wild scramble, and, there being doors all around that were open, they took all the coats with them...

That was Big Jim’s story, and when he told it, I remembered that he always got very good grades in English in the Sugar Creek School.

Dragonfly told his story, and it was that Paul Bunyan got hay fever so bad and sneezed so hard and so many times in succession that it blew a whole forest over; Poetry said Paul Bunyan ate so many blackberry pies and got so fat that when he went in swimming in Leech Lake and splashed around a lot, so much water splashed out of the lake for hundreds of miles around that it made a thousand new lakes so that the ten thousand lakes that Minnesota had at first were changed to eleven thousand; Circus said the day Paul ate Poetry’s blackberry pies he had to have toothpicks to pick the seeds out from between his teeth, so he cut down some Norway

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