five in the morning
`` I am wishing I had you home -- you will be too happy , my wild boy . '' `` There are none to be wishing evil this night , '' said Bryde , and laughed down at his mother ; and then , `` There is no lass so bonny as my mother , Hamish , '' and he put his arm round her . `` I will be behaving , little mother , '' said he , and then Dan came to us and took Belle away . * * * * * * It made high-water at five in the morning , and there was the last of a moon showing the darkness on the shore and throwing a gleam on the sea . There were folk moving on the beach , all silently except maybe you would be hearing a sech of a breath , as when a man will be stretching himself after resting from a load . There would come now and then the howling of a dog , an eerie sound , and then he would be at the barking a long way through the night . Sometimes a little horse would come out of the darkness with a pack-load on his back , and men would be lifting the load and laying it on the beach , and there would be quiet whispering , and the little horse be led away and swallowed up in the dark among the scrog and bushes .