Oh, boy, _coming down!_ This tree is tied in a sailor's knot." "Are you bringing the bird ?" Tom called.
"I'm bringing the bird and the whole block he lived in," Hervey called back merrily.

"I'm transplanting the neighborhood.

He's going to move into a better locality--very fashionable.

He's coming up in the world--I mean down.

_O-o-h, boy_, watch your step; there was a narrow escape! I stepped on a chunk of air." So he came down working his way with both feet and one hand, and holding the precious piece of branch with its dangling nest in the other.
"Talk about your barbed wire entanglements," he called.