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These are the front teeth of a savage that my uncle Josiah Abijah killed in the South Sea Islands. Uncle Josiah Abijah always said it was either him or the black man, but I have always felt that it was murder, just the same, and this is the stick of birch-wood that a sailor-man, who came here once to see my mother, killed a bull moose with."
Donald was taking his dirk with him as he went out, but the bocan said, "leave your dirk inside, Donald, and your knife as well". Donald then went outside, and the bocan led him on through rivers and a birch-wood for about three miles, till they came to the river Fert. There the bocan pointed out to Donald a hole in which he had hidden some plough-irons while he was alive.
The child promised nothing; but you could not help admiring her, as you admire the sudden, soft cry of the oriole at evening, in the lofty, dark birch-wood. I must confess that at the present time I should pass by such a creature with some indifference; I've no taste now for solitary evening strolls, and orioles; but in those days ...
As I went by the wood-pile, I grabbed up a big stick of wood " "What kind of wood?" everybody asked in chorus. "'Twas a big stick of birch-wood, with the white bark on it as clean as writin'-paper. I grabbed that up for a club 'twas the only thing in sight and when I got to the moose I hit him a clip on the side of the head as hard as I could lay on.
It will be easily believed that birch-bark was used in ancient times for writing on before the invention of paper. Birch-wood makes good fuel. It is also used by cabinet-makers. Its uses in "little woods" are many. The charcoal is good for gunpowder, and it is that of which crayons are made.
She was gone, planting that aerial foot willfully in the dust. Raindrops ticked from one to another of the broad, green leaves over the harbor master's head. Water might be heard frothing in a nearby cistern. Suddenly the moon glittered on the parson's birch-wood pile, and slanted a beam under the Preaching Tree.
The self-restrained woman had said nothing of any disappointment she might have felt. The item stood quite alone, however, in a significant isolation. At least on that day she had not noticed the number of eggs. I doubt if grandfather himself had been more excited when he saw the birch-wood club than I was to read those few words.
The bark of this species is said to be more durable than any other vegetable substance, and a piece of birch-wood was once found changed into stone, while the outer bark, white and shining, remained in its natural state," "I don't see how it could," said Malcolm. "What kept it from turning into stone too?"
By the time he reached the ponds he was tired out; but instead of stopping at the largest of the three, where a picturesque group of old brick cottages brought a reminder of man and his works into the prairie solitude of the common, he pushed on to a smaller pool just beyond, now hidden in a green cloud of birch-wood.
Thence I turned From the talk and the trouble To go a leasing What the wolves had left me; No sigh I made No smote hands together, Nor did I wail As other women When I sat over My Sigurd slain. Night methought it, And the moonless dark, When I sat in sorrow Over Sigurd; Better than all things I deemed it would be If they would let me Cast my life by, Or burn me up As they burn the birch-wood.
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