black spruce _tops_

top n Well, what we always.tanned our sails with here, and our twine, - we would take the bark of [off?] a vir tree [PT] or black spruce tops. You know what a black spruce top is of the black spruce wood - the small wood ,where,say, you . I imagine you take forty or fifty on your back in a turn. And...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1964
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/74854
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Summary:top n Well, what we always.tanned our sails with here, and our twine, - we would take the bark of [off?] a vir tree [PT] or black spruce tops. You know what a black spruce top is of the black spruce wood - the small wood ,where,say, you . I imagine you take forty or fifty on your back in a turn. And you cut the beer tops off of them.like they used to make the spruce beer with. And you boil out this rine, this bark, or otherwise the boughs. Yes DNE-cit J. WIDDOWSON [-]= C30[-] Used I Not used 1 Used I [ see 'bark', 'tan', 'catechu', cutch'] topbearer, top 'em all, top house, top linnet, linnet, top load, top loft, loft, top-man, top tank, pinnacle tank