09 January 10, 2009 - ObserverXtra

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Local villagers carried the baby to the meeting
house and fed him barrels and barrels of milk.
It took ten people to burp him, and when he
finally burped, it nearly blew the roof off the
meeting house!
STORMALONG
ALFRED
BULLTOP
TIDAL
CLIPPER
BLEW
GIANT
FATHOMS
BOSTON
MAST
SWAB
CARGO
PASSAGE
NEST
STEM
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Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was called Stormy for short, but there was nothing short about this legendary tall tale character!
How many of these words
can you find on this page?
“Get all the soap you can
find!” bellowed Stormy.
“Swab the sides of the ship
until they are as slippery as a
wet fish!”
Stormy was able to slide the
slippery hull of his ship
through the passage. The
soap scrubbed the cliffs so
clean that they are sparkling
white to this day.
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!
Stormy’s ship carried cargo across the
Atlantic. Once, when he came to a narrow
passage in the English Channel near the
town of Dover, the crew quickly determined
that the ship was too wide to fit
through the passage.
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.
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.
While Stormy loved the sea, the
clipper ship was not big enough
for him. It nearly tipped over
when he stood near the rail. He
heard that the plains of the
Midwest stretched for miles like
a sea of land and he headed west
to try his hand at farming.
The sailors of Boston Harbor missed Stormy and Stormy
missed them and the sea. After a while, he headed back
to Boston Harbor. The sailors were so happy to see
him that they worked together to build a ship that was
big enough for him. Stormy named the ship The Coarser.
Find three
measurements in
today’s newspaper.
Rewrite each one in
fathoms.
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
A L E R E P P I L C
S T E M G B E P N D
G N O L A M R O T S
I O A W L S R T S M
A T S Y F S T L E O
N S C A R G O L N H
T O B L E W E U A T
T B L A D I T B A A
L E E G A S S A P F
THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 10, 2009
Are you an eagle-eyed reader?
Read the articles below and correct the
11 spelling and grammar errors you
find. The first one is done for you.
When Stormy first become a cabin boy
on the ship, The Lady of the Sea, the
sailors was unsure about the 36-foot
tall lad. but that all changed when
Stormy saved the day.
It started when the captain called out,
“Hoist the ankor!” The ship was
anchored off the coast of South america
at the time. The crew pulled on the
anchor chain, but nothing happened.
They pulled and pulled, but the anchor
would not budged.
“I’ll fix it!” stormalong said. He stuck
a knife between his teeth and dived
overboard. He created a mighty splash
that caused a tidal wave in China!
Soon the water rolled and the ship was
tossed on wild, foaming waves. The
sailors were sure they would all be
pitched into the sea, when suddenly the
Sea became calm and Stormy’s head
broke through the waters surface.
“What happened?” the crew cried out.
“Just a little tussle with a two-ton
octopus,” Stormy replied.
“I tied his tentacles into knots. It will
take a month of sundays for him to
untie himself!”
Stormy was the most popular saylor on
board after that!
Tell about something that
happened to you recently.
Then tell it again and
exaggerate as many things in
the story as you can, adding
silly or outrageous details.