These limbs are often as many feet in length as the tree itself is in height.
It was upon these that they had climbed--Basil having taken to that one under which they had slept, and which was much larger than the others around.

At the foot of this tree the bear stopped.

The robes and blankets drew her attention for the moment.

She tossed them over with her great paws, and then left them, and walked round the trunk, looking upward, at intervals uttering loud "sniffs," that sounded like the "'scape" of a steam-pipe.

By this time Basil had reached the third or fourth branch from the ground.