Stewart — Watt—Legends of Paul Bunyan. 
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Now Sour-face Murphy in the door 
Was standin’. And the face he wore 
Convinced the first assistant cook 
That Murphy soured ’em with his look. 
And when he had the peelin’s drained 
A quart of Irish booze remained. 
The bull-cook tells the tale to Paul 
And Paul takes Murphy off the haul 
And gives him, very willingly, 
A job as camp distillery.” 
Some of the tales of the camp exploits concern members 
of Paul Bunyan’s crew rather than the hero himself. One 
of the men, for example, had two sets of teeth, and, walking 
in his sleep one night, he encountered the grind-stone and 
chewed it to bits before he was fully aroused to what he 
was doing. In the adventure of another member of the 
crew we have the familiar tale of the man who jumped across 
the river in three jumps. The crew sometimes showed in¬ 
genuity on their own account as when they rolled boulders 
down the steep sides of the pyramid forty, and running after 
them ground their axes to a razor edge against the revolving 
stones. 
Connected very frequently with the Bunyan tales are ac¬ 
counts of fabulous animals that haunted the camp. There 
is the bird who lays square eggs so that they will not roll 
down hill, and hatches them in the snow. Then there is the 
side-hill ‘dodger, a curious animal naturally adapted to 
life on a hill by virtue of the circumstance that it has two 
short legs on the up-hill side. Of this creature it is said that 
by mistake the female dodger once laid her eggs (for the 
species seems to resemble somewhat the Australian duck¬ 
bill) wrong end around, with the terrible result that the 
little dodgers, hatching out with their short legs down hill, 
rolled into the river and drowned. The pinnacle grouse are 
birds with only one wing, adapted by this defect for flight 
in one direction about the top of a conical hill. There is 
little doubt that these animal stories existed outside the 
Bunyan cycle, and are simply appended to the central group 
of tales. 
The story of Bunyan’s method of paying off his crew at 
the end of the season shows the hero’s craftiness. Discov¬ 
ering in the spring that he had no money on hand, Bunyan 
