bed-tree

Updated: August 2, 2026

"Now there's a foine bed-tree." "Why, that's a fire-tree, too," said Yan, as with two mighty strokes Raften sent it toppling down, then rapidly trimmed it of its flat green boughs. A few more strokes brought down a smooth young Ash and cut it into four pieces, two of them seven feet long and two of them five feet. Next he cut a White Oak sapling and made four sharp pegs each two feet long.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned