a-wiving

Updated: May 8, 2025

And by a series of questions he made out this story: The boy had been playing about on the grass in front of the Globe with some others; then they had gone home to their teas, and he was just going, when he happened to look up at the front winder and see it a-wiving at him.

M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary