An old logger named Larrity talks to young Jeff and his wired hair terrier named Mike. The old man tells the two about the history of Paul Bunyan and the turkey, saying that men nowadays don’t do the hard hunting that happened long ago. One day, Paul Bunyan, a gigantic lumberjack and hunter, was walking in the forest with his giant wired-haired terrier, Dublin. The two were hunting for a Christmas dinner to give to the loggers in his camp and were debating what to hunt for them. At that time, all the animals had long tails and used the tails to survive in the forest, so hunting was harder for the two. As they walk on they hear a noise and follow it, but in a flash a coppery bird flies out of nowhere and snips Dublin’s tail off with its beak. The dog cries and Paul Bunyan quickly bandages his dog’s tail. Old Larrity says that the turkey was biting off all the tails of the local animals. Paul Bunyan, level-headed, but wanting to take down the turkey devises a plan to catch the beast. He notices that it flies in circles and so he bends his scatter-cannon to shoot in a circle and so he will have a better shot at killing it. Then, he takes a cattail and attaches it to Dublin's tail-stub so that the dog can act as bait. The turkey does take the bait, but outflies the cannonballs from Paul Bunyan’s cannon. Paul Bunyan, thinking that he can’t beat the turkey in speed, decides to send Dublin up the river one way and then shoots up the river as well, in front of the turkey’s flight path thus having the turkey run into the cannonballs and falling towards the ground. Dublin pursues the falling turkey and takes its head off as retribution for taking his tail. Paul Bunyan sees the fine meat of the bird and decides to give it to the loggers for Christmas dinner. He then glues up the tails of all the other turkeys in the forest so they can’t fly as fast as the one before. Young Jeff listens as Larrity finishes his story and the boy and his dog walk into the woods, fancying themselves to be like Paul Bunyan and Dublin.