swingin't

Updated: May 22, 2025

He had the gate in his hand, but I dinna think he kent 'at he was swingin't back an' forrit. At last he let it go. "'That's a', he said, 'I maun awa. Good-nicht, an' thank ye kindly. "I watched 'im till he gaed oot o' sicht. He gaed doon the brae." We learnt afterwards from the gravedigger that some one spent great part of that night in the graveyard, and we believe it to have been Jamie.

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie - A Window in Thrums