blue-beech

“Among other things I saw hanging there was a half-worn-out, dried-up bunch of blue-beech switches.”

Twenty Years of Hus'ling

“But thwack, thwack, thwack, comes from the blue-beech goad;”

The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects

“And soon they heard the heavy stroke of his axe ringing among the trees, for he had found the blue-beech, and was cutting it to leave on the path, that he might take it home on their return; he had also marked some hiccory of a nice size for his axe handles, to bring home at some future time.”

Canadian Crusoes

“Hector, sweet coz, is thinking perhaps of how many bushels of corn or wheat this land would grow if cleared, or he may be examining the soil or the trees, or is looking for his stick of blue-beech for your broom, or the hiccory for his axe handle, and never heeding such nonsense as woodpeckers and squirrels, and lilies and moss and ferns, for Hector is not a giddy thing like his cousin Louis, or --”

Canadian Crusoes

“In the first place, I have to cut a stick of blue-beech to make a broom for sweeping the house, sister of mine; and that is for your use, Miss”

Canadian Crusoes