midday
Now that he had gotten deliverance from his affliction , it was for me to leave him in the place he wantit . Forbye , he wasna muckle heavier than a bairn . It was a long road , a sair road , but I did it , and by seven o'clock I was at the edge o ' the muirlands . There was a braw mune , and a the glens and taps stood out as clear as midday . Bit by bit , for I was gey tired , I warstled ower the rigs and up the cleuchs to the Gled-head ; syne up the stany Gled-cleuch to the lang grey hill which they ca ' the Hurlybackit . By ten I had come to the cairn , and black i ' the mune I saw the grave . So there I buried him , and though I 'm no a releegious man , I couldna help sayin ' ower him the guid words o ' the Psalmist -- `` As streams of water in the South , Our bondage , Lord , recall . ''