What is the narrator talking about when she says, “the rest of us agreed; papa always meant what he said – and he swung a mean switch,”?

In this quote the narrator is a First-person narrator.

The First person narrator is a kind of narration that relies on the point of view of the narrator, using the first person, that is to say "I", "we".

In this case the use of US indicates the first person narrator.

answer: a lonely woodcutter comes by and decides to chop down the tree, while chopping, connor murphy took a nap next to the tree. waking up from the sound of chopping, he notices the tree falling on him. unable to escape, connor get hit and dies. this was the last of him.