"Birch bark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two small hatchets. They used young saplings for keel and the ribs, and, with patience, they managed to strip off enough of the birch bark ...
— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman
... stood in the midst of great fields of Indian corn; it was of a circular form, containing about fifty large huts, each fifty paces long and from fourteen to fifteen wide, all built in the shape of tunnels, formed of wood, and covered with birch bark; the dwellings were divided into several rooms, surrounding an open court in the center, where the fires burned. Three rows of palisades encircled the town, with only one entrance; above the gate, and over the ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... find one, chop down a cedar tree. Whittle a handful of splinters and shavings from the dry heart. Try to find the lee side of a rock or log where the wind and rain do not beat in. First put down the shavings or some dry birch bark if you can find it, and shelter it as well as you can from the rain. Pile up some larger splinters of wood over the kindling material like an Indian's wigwam. Then light it and give it a chance to ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
... compelled to build up the entrance with a wall of firewood, the interstices being stuffed with moss; the hut was lighted by lamps of bear and deer fat melted down and poured into tin drinking-cups, the wicks being composed of strips of birch bark. A watch was regularly kept all day, two always remaining in the hut, one keeping watch through a small slip cut in the curtain before the narrow orifice in the log wall, that served as a door, the other looking after the fire, keeping up a good supply of melted ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... boys espied a small stone house, standing beside a brook which flowed through the woods into the river. In the house lived an old man who made his living by making baskets and fancy articles of birch bark. ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
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