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Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was called Stormy for short, but there was nothing short about this legendary tall tale character!
One day, in the early 1800s, a tidal wave washed a giant baby onto a Cape Cod beach. The baby boy was three fathoms tall! Local villagers carried the baby to the meeting house and fed him barrels and barrels of milk. It took 10 people to burp him, and when he finally burped, it nearly blew the roof off the meeting house! Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students know the defining characteristics of a variety of literary forms.
Read about baby Stormy and complete this picture.
When Stormy turned 12, he was six fathoms tall. He didn’t fit into the school house and was too tall to work in a store. They sent him to Boston because it was a lot bigger than Cape Cod.
How many of these words can you find on this page?
Sadly, in Boston he found an even sadder sight. While Boston was a bigger city, the houses and buildings were just as small. He walked to Boston Harbor and headed for the largest clipper ship. The captain welcomed him aboard and Stormy started work as a cabin boy.
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