nine in the morning
`` Well , then , ye may depend upon it there was nae time to be lost . And now here is enough said ; gang you to your sleep , lad , and I 'll watch . '' Accordingly , I lay down to sleep ; a little peaty earth had drifted in between the top of the two rocks , and some bracken grew there , to be a bed to me ; the last thing I heard was still the crying of the eagles . I daresay it would be nine in the morning when I was roughly awakened , and found Alan 's hand pressed upon my mouth . `` Wheesht ! '' he whispered . `` Ye were snoring . ''