paul bunyan Paul Bunyan, the mighty woodcutter, and his companions camped out for the winter, and picked up the tree trunks near a hot spring from which the steamer sprang even in the middle of winter. One day, the man who brought the provisions carried a huge load of peas. Beside the road, close to the spring, the cart was overturned and all drains fell into the boiling water of the spring. Joseph, the French cook, said, "Paul, I think we've had good luck." With that hot water you can make pea soup too. Said and done: the cook took enough of the pepper, salt, and pork, and poured everything into a spring among the peas, which gave them good soup throughout the winter. All the contents with the fall of the peas except the porters of the dining room, who complained because every day they had to make a trip of five kilometers on foot to bring the soup. Now Joseph, the cook, had a stove so huge that when he put the dough in the oven to make bread and went to look at it, ...