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Let \(F\) be a non-Archimedean local field, \(G=\text{\textrm{GL}}_2(F)\), \(X\) be the Bruhat-Tits tree of \(G\), \(k\) denote the residue class field of \(F\) and \(\Gamma=\text{PGL}_2(k)\). The author explicitly constructs a one-dimensional simplicial complex \(\tilde{X}\), on which \(G\times\Gamma\) acts, and a \((G\times\Gamma)\)-equivariant simplicial map \(p\colon \tilde{X}\to X\), where \(\Gamma\) acts trivially on \(X\). The compactly-supported cohomology space decomposes under the induced action of \(G\times\Gamma\) as \[ H^1_{c}(\tilde{X},\mathbb{C})= \bigoplus_{\tau\in\widehat{\Gamma}}\Pi_{\tau}\otimes\tau, \] where each \(\Pi_{\tau}\) is a smooth complex representation of \(G\). The question of whether this construction leads to interesting representations of \(G\) is answered by showing that \(\Pi_1\), the representation of \(G\) corresponding to the trivial representation of \(\Gamma\), contains a family of cuspidal representations \(\pi_u\) indexed by \(u\in k^{\times}\). The complete decomposition of \(\Pi_1\) is not given, and the other \(\Pi_{\tau}\) are not investigated; the author remarks that he hopes to return to these problems in subsequent work.