Many years ago, Paul had encouraged his cooks to move a little faster while cooking. Paul thought that with more speed, their hearts would beat faster and they would feel better. This would result in even better tasting meals for all the loggers at camp. And so the first Pots and Pans Drum Line came into being. Not only did the cooks use a little more rhythm to speed up their cooking, but they also began tapping out this rhythm on almost anything they could find. The loggers would hear this out in the woods, but never really saw it all in action because by the time they came to eat, the cooks' fun was over with. But the food was super good!

   One day, Paul decided he would set up a special time for the loggers and workers to come back to camp early and have the Drum Line do their routine for all to see. Thus began the marching around camp by the cooks, wearing their aprons and towels over their trousers and shirts, with crazy hats balanced on their heads. A fun time was had by all.

   But one day, Paul was surprised when the parade didn’t begin. He peeked down into the kitchen windows to see what was going on. Boomer, the main man, told Paul that they could no longer prepare the food and do the rhythm thing. He said they were just too old to mix and pound - stir and beat all at the same time. Besides some had lost bits of their hearing from  the continual din that went on. Boomer apologized to Paul and went back to his cooking.

   Paul thought and thought. The only thing that came to his mind was to trudge over to the nearby town of Crosslake and find kids who would be youngsters for a long time. He knew they could continue with the beating and drumming that stirred the hearts and souls of the loggers and oxen alike. Paul didn't even mind that the younguns weren’t cooks! He just wanted them to look like cooks. Maybe the loggers gettin' back to camp would be too tired to notice they were just kids. Paul knew that for this to work, he would have the drum line march a 'spit & an axe handle' away-which is quite a distance-from the loggers outdoor sittin' fire.  

   From that day on the drum line became known across the land as Paul’s Pots and Pans Drum Line. They traveled to many parades and gatherings to show off their stuff. And all the folks in the North Woods were happy.