"Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree."

A man remembers summer escapades, he six years old and believing various impossible tales told by an older boy, including one about an elephant's nest at his uncle's farm.

He recalls his disappointment when he discovered no such nest, and reflects that twenty-five years later his friend has not changed: he earns enough money and bread from a job "that a boy of six could do," gets his hair cut, and walks happily to the countryside to see the elephant's nest.

The title is derived from a children's nonsense song that, in some versions, reads "the Elephant is a pretty bird, she flits from bough to bough, she builds her nest in the rhubarb tree, and whistles like a cow."

In John O'London's Weekly (April 14, 1939), The Flying Goat (1939), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).