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The Poets3 Cornerthe terrible wind thatBUNVAX BLEWOne day in March when the sun was high And the thaws of! spring were mighty nigh,The Terrible Swede got orders from PaulTo stop the cut and start to haul. The Swede gave Babe some extrahayAnd yoked him up the following day.A Chinook wind commenced to blow,Warm up the air and melt the snow. The roads were slushy and deep with mud, (Old Babe got mad and stopped bisjicud; j rRefused to respond to the urging; * goad, jAnd drag the logs on a rm:rid\ ' -road. •'No u.'f\ Paul, na’l; ju.-t. unhook., ^ And I'll go and stop that damn ..Chinook. nAt 9 a. m. says Paul I'm gosn'And started for the frigid zone.At sixty-six and thirty-three.Inflated his lungs and blew you sec. His frosty breath went all the way prom the frigid zone to Niger bay. Proze twenty feet into the ground From Plymouth jRock to Puget Sound.When Paul got back to work next morn,llis frigid blow had froze Cape Horn.That selfsame yar in early fall Tim Chinook came back to \ i.sil j* Paul. | hThen he roll' d t:p a bail oi sue*w. ! Took accurate aim and let 'or go; ■nAS'rlt;lt;1C-Pr7Hit old Chinook with a mightyforce.And split him right m two, ot course.FnS'11f:f;The massive ball and speedy throw Made a cyclone down in Mexico.The very next day the Niger froze And the Caribs started wearing clothes;Made of furs t’was something new! For the ladies down in Timbuktu. ^ Now some would want Chinooks to j p. blow.Have summer showers instead of snow. ! \\But Paul was like a polar bear ilt;!fHe wanted ice and Arctic air. ! !c,Ninety below and the course of diet Put a keen edge on ills appetite. Baking beans Paul Bunyan’s way Ts done in Boston, so they say.The man with fifty-seven lines,T think his name Is Henry Hines; learned his beans the Bunyan way Prom the Pilgrims out at Boston bay.Paul had no sins lor to atone.And Ids ghost is m the frigid rone. Now and then when springs ore lateGOr Rummers cooi in the Badgerth^ale, .ffIt’s Paul exhaling frigid air ’ ’nTo make climate for the tonnst fair.'u1(Copyright, 1833, by iOWalter v. Cushing, Portage, Wis.) M
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Apr 02, 1938
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