Beside the prayer tree, 11-year-old Rakhim is nursing a nettled hand with a dock leaf.

There he lay a long time half dead and exhausted, under a dock leaf which hid him from view.

Couldn't I wash off a little blood in the creek, and tie up my toe with a dock leaf and some grass?

Do sit down on the grass and rest a bit; it is quite dry; and I'll fan you with a big dock leaf.

The table was a mushroom, covered with a table-cloth of water- dock leaf, and on it were placed all the delicious dishes of the woods.