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As if that were not variation enough, another Glocester dweller, Walter Battey, refers to this custom as swedging birches . Swedge?
The island scenery is another painter’s delight — the dark green of the spruces and silver birches against grey-and-pink granite outcrops.
Frost calls this custom swinging birches , and the one who practises it, a swinger of birches . Though the custom was not universal, back in the days when youngsters still invented their own entertainments, enough of them swung the limber birches for it to be a common pastime.
Another oldtimer, Henry Hawkins of Glocester likewise speaks of swaling birches, adding that it did not always work out as one hoped it would: sometimes the 15-20-foot gray birch would tip part way down only to falter, leaving the climber dangling halfway, a predicament, indeed.
In his poem, Birches , Robert Frost describes a custom among country boys of climbing birch trees to the very crown, so high the tree can no longer support them but bends over submissively and lowers them to the ground.