II. Bunyan, Paul a
giant (=an extremely large man) in old American stories. He was a
lumberjack (=someone whose job is to cut down trees) from the forests of Canada and the north US, who travelled with a blue
ox called Babe. They changed the shape of the land as they walked along, for example by making mountains and also the
Grand Canyon.
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