Possible Clues:

• Understand very little from box, perhaps
• Understand it's a little bit of a chestnut
• Suddenly see; branchlet
• Understand it's time to issue rebuke
• Get a bit of stick?
• Small piece of wood
• Understand, after some initial difficulty, it is a small branch
• Get a bit of wood
• One may help support a nest egg
• Cotton on a stick