white wood

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75862

white a and in the water. It was an old beaver-house,and I sat down on the top,and heard the old man hold forth, while we munched biscuits and smoked turn about. Opposite to us was a second house,and at the end of the lake, in a flat meadow covered with rank green grass a yard long, was the top of a third house, now building. It was on an island in a creek, and could not be reached without a boat. All round us, in the soft turf of the banks, were beaver-roads : canals, a foot wide, dug into the land ten or twenty yards, and ending in a path cleared to the trees. The canal had fur- nished mud for the house,the path was the road for food and timber, and food and timber were piled on the house. The food is 'white wood' and birch, about a couple of inches thick. The branches had been neatly nibbled into portable lengths, and they were piled on a turf opposite to the house. The old branches had been PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W Kirwin 1/79 JH 1/79 Used I and Sup Used I 4 Not used white hawk; ~ bird; ~ cap; ~ game; ~ hawk; ~ jay; ~ministe; ~ partridge; ~-tail eagle; ~-throated loo; ~-winged diver; ~ winter gull; white daisy; ~ flower; ~ lily; ~ maple; ~ moss; ~ musk;, ~ snow-drops; ~ spruce; ~ top; ~ wood; white bear; white boy;