swing-bird's

Updated: May 3, 2025

"What is all that stuff, Pansy?" exclaimed Patty, as she beheld her young waitress fairly staggering under her load. "They're lovely things, Miss Patty, and I hope you don't mind. This is a hornet's nest, and this is a branch of an apple tree, with a swing-bird's nest on it." "A branch! It's a big limb, a bough, I should call it. What are you going to do with it?"

Carolyn Wells - Patty at Home