Thorley relates an anecdote of a gentleman, who, desirous of securing a swarm of bees that had settled in a hollow tree, rashly undertook to dislodge them.
Being refused, he went away angry and hid in a hollow tree, where he still lives, and all who walk alone in the forest fear to meet him, for he wishes nothing so much as to do a mischief to the descendants of the sister and brother.
Accordingly, he hid his bow and quiver full of arrows in a hollow tree, with all of his clothing and other weapons, so that he might appear quite naked and harmless before the timid Elk people.
At the edge of the wood he took off his clothes and hid them in a hollow tree.
His home is in a hollow tree, and his weapons are the brilliantly colored feathers of gay birds.
But in Saxo's version of the Hroar-Helgi story, the boys are concealed in a hollow tree.
The den in which they are born may be a hollow tree, a hollow log, or more often an underground tunnel with several entrances and a storeroom besides the living chamber.
His wash may consist of a hollow tree or a hollow log, a cave, or any suitable shelter formed by an uprooted tree.
If it be a cave, they are safe except from the trap when they come forth to begin another journey; but if it is a hollow tree, woe betide the poor wretches.
The raccoon's den is there in ledge or hollow tree.
In Mosuri, where this species is only a summer visitor, it usually prefers making its nest within a hollow tree.
He always had lived in a hollow tree, and so he preferred one now.
Now, of course, he had in mind a hollow tree or log.
They trailed him down to the creek, but he had found a hollow tree lying in the water, with a hole on the upper side through which he could breathe, so he crawled into it and they could not find him.
Some others say it was this way: A Blacksnake found a Yellowhammer's nest in a hollow tree, and after swallowing the young birds, coiled up to sleep in the nest, where the mother bird found him when she came home.
Lawyer's Fortune; or, Love in a Hollow Tree, by Viscount Grimston, i.
Love in a Hollow Tree; or, The Lawyer's Fortune, by Viscount Grimston, i.
Then the hunter buried his wife and threw the infant into the hollow tree.
Then, after tracking the island all over, he must get into a hollow tree near by, and stay all night.
So, after a while, we must keep a lookout for some sort of shelter, such as a hollow tree.
And I can remember many a time when I've slept in worse places than a hollow tree.
In the Park the sparrow hawks nest in a hollow tree, as do the screech owls.
But as to his nest--he would have to sharpen his wits still more to solve successfully the question of the woodpecker motto, "What is home without a hollow tree?
The hermit thrush soothes his labour with its wonderful song; the pileated woodpecker pounds its disapproval upon a near-by hollow tree; the deer and wolf take a last look out through the trees and flee from the spot forever.
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