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Tall Tale Narrative Samples

Narrative 1:

Davy Crockett and the Frozen Dawn


A Tennessee Tall Tale retold by S.E. Schlosser

One winter, it was so cold that the dawn froze solid. The sun got caught between two ice blocks, and the earth iced up so much that it couldn't turn. The first rays of sunlight froze halfway over the mountain tops. They looked like yellow icicles dripping towards the ground. Now Davy Crockett was headed home after a successful night hunting when the dawn froze up so solid. Being a smart man, he knew he had to do something quick or the earth was a goner. He had a freshly killed bear on his back, so he whipped it off, climbed right up on those rays of sunlight and began beating the hot bear carcass against the ice blocks which were squashing the sun. Soon a gush of hot oil burst out of the bear and it melted the ice. Davy gave the sun a good hard kick to get it started, and the sun's heat unfroze the earth and started it spinning again. So Davy lit his pipe on the sun, shouldered the bear, slid himself down the sun rays before they melted and took a bit of sunrise home in his pocket.

Narrative 2:

Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox Babe


Paul Bunyan was a giant and strong lumberjack. He had a huge blue ox named Babe. It was said that Bunyan was seven feet tall and able to do any lumber job in the country. He was able to cut the trees of whole forests with one sweep of his axe. Some lumberjacks told stories about how Bunyan logged all the timber from the large state of North Dakota. Now a story would not be complete without Bunyans ox. One might ask why Babe was blue. The story started one fine winter. The snow was blue for seven days. Babe rested in the blue snow and then his fur was blue instead of white. Babe was also very large and strong. Other lumberjacks were so amazed because Babe weighed ten thousand pounds and had the strength of nine horses. It was no wonder that Bunyan and Babe were known to pull large houses up mountains and down to the valleys with only drops of sweat. Together they helped people haul logs or chopped trees to give a hand around the logging camps. Both were happiest in the woods with plenty of trees. They tried to stay close to the river so they could cut the trees and drop them in the river. And, down the river the logs floated to the mill. And so, Paul Bunyan and Babe became larger than life American folk heroes of our country.

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