Paul Bunyan and His Cat "Nina"

NOTE:-Thir war the way Paul Bruryan and hir famour cat '3Nina" ctacked up in a recent piece of advertieing of the Red River Lumber Company. The Cat har the proper curl in the tail and rlant to the midrection. The little yarn related becreath the pictwe ir typical of PauI, and quite clever.

The year of Nine Months Winter (which was 9 years after he logged ofi North Dakota in 9 weeks with 9 men) Paul Bunyan had a contract to land 99 million f eet of logs scattered over 9 townships up on the 9th fork of Nine Mile Creek. Headquarters Camp No. 9 was 9 days' trip for the 9-horse tote teams and so deep in the woods that the owls mated with his chickerrs and the roosters used to crow "HOO-HOO" for nine hours everl' night. Paul's Camp was so far from anywhere that the wolves used to get lost trying to find it, their only guidc being the owls and the roosters crying "HOO-HOO." When the wolves got to be a nuisance Paul was on the point of killing all his poultry when a bright idea struck him. "Nina," his Big Black Cat, had exterminated all the rats and was getting fat and lazy with nothing to do and licking up 9 galtons of cream a day, so Paul taught "Nina" to yowl "HOO-HOO" and when the wolves approached the cat would leap upon them and destroy them. Paul ahvays thought a lot of Nina for exterminating the wolves at Camp 9.