So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that.
Then the vine and the snowdrop wept, and the pine-tree and the fir were very sad.
With the pointer in his hand he touched the star at the apex of the fir.
We wandered about in the fir wood, and at last came to a pause and rested.
These plants are found on pine and fir trunks and on sawdust heaps.
But for all that he only named two trees, for fir and Scotch fir are both the same.
He had carefully investigated the alley of fir branches from the outside.
A splinter of fir was burning in the cresset, and the fire was lighted in the stove.
Sonachan gave a grunt, and thumped loudly on the fir boards.
All about the green square mound the trees are thick—laurel, fir, and yew.
