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Earthlings have created some amazing characters, Yott. I’m reading about a giant farmer named Febold Feboldson!
Sounds like a tall tale to me, Zott!
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About 150 years ago, thousands of pioneers began heading for rich farmland in Oregon and, later, for gold in California. After crossing the Mississippi River, they came to the wide, flat prairie we now call the Great Plains. From these Great Plains have come tales of a giant Swedish farmer called Febold Feboldson.
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he first year Febold Feboldson settled on the Great Plains, it was hot. And it got hotter every day: hotter and drier, drier and hotter. It was so hot that iron pots melted! When the streams dried up and Febold Feboldson couldn’t go fishing, he said, “Enough!” Febold sat down and cupped his jaw in his giant hand and thought and thought—until suddenly he came up with a plan. First he splashed some water on a hot and tired frog and whispered in its ear, “It’s raining!” The happy frog croaked the news to his frog friends. Soon more frogs joined in the song. They got so loud that it sounded like thunder! Some clouds heard the noise and hurried to join the storm. Seeing there was no storm when they got to the Great Plains, the clouds went ahead and started their own, giving Febold Feboldson a rainstorm and a chance to get back to fishing.
Standards Link: Literary Analysis: Understand the basic plots of fables.
espite the weather, some pioneers settled in the plains. In the 1920s, a newspaper in Gothenburg, Nebraska, entertained readers with tales of Febold Feboldson, a giant farmer who loved the Great Plains and was determined to control the weather.
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