Reading class

I major English course now and learning English. In that, I take “Reading” class. In the class, teacher gives us some homework. I introduce about the homework today. It is a part.  

When I was a lad growing up in the United States, I was always fascinated by stories of the country's great folk heroes: Johnny Appleseed rambling across the land dressed in a coffee sack and tin-pan hat, spreading seeds and growing apple trees; Davy Crocket clad in buckskin and a coonskin cap, exploring the frontier forests; Jim Bowie the great knife fighter; and Francis Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys fighting in the war for independence.

 Another favorite story character was Paul Bunyan, the last of the old-style lumberjacks logging in the great northern woods. Paul was said to be nearly 30 meters tall, and stomped around the woods of northern Minnesota accompanied by his faithful companion Babe the giant blue ox. One tale holds that the Great Lakes were dug as watering holes for Babe.

 Unfortunately, the historical evidence indicates that the figure of Paul Bunyan, like that of the Jolly Green Giant, was most likely created as a marketing device in the early 20th century. To a small boy in the 1950s, however, Paul was a great hero, gobbling up stacks of pancakes for breakfast and cutting and hauling immense logs all day long.

It is article of newspaper. I read it and make some questions about the article. It is difficult for me. But it is interesting, because in the class, we solve our questions each other. I think that I want to study English more and more!!

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