They live almost entirely on the so-called reindeer moss; but this failing them, they eat the young twigs of the trees.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Stas had observed on the previous days that Kali understood how to stir up a fire with wet twigs, so it occurred to him to order the negro to descend and try whether he would not succeed this time.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He had no axe, but he tore off an armful or two of the thinner branches, with the twigs attached to them, to form a bed, and then, crawling down to the river, filled his smoke-blackened can and came back wearily to make a fire.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton