| The heat from the birchen logs and the sizzling jack-pine penetrated her. |
| The birchen canoes were pierced, and in the excitement many were capsized. |
| Better by far it seemed to me had the wolves taken my life, or I had been burnt as a birchen tree. |
| I said to my Indian, and swept the birchen craft out into the deep and steady current. |
| But I laughed at him and saw his broad paddle stab the water, and the birchen craft shoot out among the reeds. |
| Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark. |
