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For six miles there is timber, but after this willow is the only wood to camp.— The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
They make it o' the dried leaves o' the shumack and the inner bark o' the red-willow, chopped very small an' mixed together.— The Dog Crusoe and his Master
For a second or two his pole bent like a willow, and we could feel the heavy boat jerk off a little with the tremendous strain; but all at once the pole broke off short with a crack, Francois' heels made a flourish in the air, and then he disappeared head foremost into the foaming water, with my tobacco coiled round his neck!— The Young Fur Traders
By means of long poles they extended their platform from the wagon quite up to the trunk of the tree, so as to give them a broad terrace to move about upon The poles were fast wattled together by rods of the beautiful weeping-willow (_Salix Babylonica_), which is a native of these parts, and several trees of which grew by the side of the vley.— The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
It was the weeping or Babylonian willow--so-called, because it was upon trees of this species that the captive Jews hung their harps when they "sat and wept by the streams of Babel."— The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family

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