The sapling, jarred out of the notch, springing upward!
Before me, in the leafy top of an oak sapling, sat a blue grosbeak.
First they had to find the right kind of sapling, springy and strong.
The sapling is bent down to it and fitted into the notch, which holds it down.
"First we find a sapling and clear the branches from it with the hatchet--like this.
He pointed to a long, heavy sapling which had been fetched in for a sleeper or something of that sort.
The sapling had to be in the right place--one by the goat trail, the other at the far end of the ledge.
At the edge of the forest he laid the axe to the root of a sapling about four inches through at the butt.
Now we make a noose--so--from a piece of rope, tie it to the end of the sapling, and spread the loop out on the path--this way.
Several times Mukoki stopped and leaned perilously close to the dizzy edge of the mountain, peering down with critical eyes, and once when he pulled himself back cautiously by means of a small sapling he explained his interest by saying: