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The frozen
flames and the log jam – American Folktale
Frozen Flames
Paul
Bunyan dug Lake Michigan as a drinking hole for his Blue Ox, Babe one
winter. Sometime after this, he chose to camp out in the Upper
Peninsula. This was one of the coldest winters on record with the
temperature dropping to 68 degrees below zero in the evening hours. The
flames in lanterns had frozen solid and even Paul Bunyan could not blow
one out.
The
lumberjacks were having a hard sleeping because of the bright light
from the lanterns, so they decided to move the lanterns as far away
from the bunkhouse as possible. When Spring came to the area, the
lumberjacks had forgotten about the lanterns that were placed outside
the camp and they started to thaw. Once they began to thaw, they set
Northern Michigan on fire. Paul Bunyan stamped out the fire with his
mighty boots.
Log Jam
During
Spring of one year, loggers found a very large log jam on the Wisconsin
River that had never been discovered before. The logs were piled one on
top of the other and reached two hundred feet in the air and the jam
was over a mile upriver. The loggers began to chop and haul away the
logs as fast as they could, however, the jam did not move at all. They
then called on Paul Bunyan to help them.
Paul
along with Babe the Blue Ox looked over the log jam. Paul asked the
loggers to stand back out of the way. Babe went into the river in front
of the log jam and Paul began to shoot his rifle, peppering Babe with
shot. Babe thought this peppering feeling was a breed of fly that
enjoyed bothering him from to time; he began to swish his tail back and
forth.
This
caused the water in the river to begin flowing upstream taking the logs
with it. Slowly, the log jam broke loose and Paul pulled Babe from the
river. After Babe was back on the shoreline, the river and the logs
began again to float downstream the way it was meant.
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