six o'clock
`` It 'll pe a coot ` oman , Mistress Kertope , '' he said as he came back ; `` and it 'll no pe to plame her for forgifing Glenlyon , for he did not kill her creat crandmother . Put it 'll pe fery paad preeding to request her nainsel , Tuncan MacPhail , to be forgifing ta rascal . Only she 'll pe put a voman , and it 'll not pe knowing no petter to her . -- You 'll be minding you 'll be firing ta cun at six o'clock exackly , Malcolm , for all she says ; for my lord peing put shust come home to his property , it might be a fex to him if tere was any mistake so soon . Put inteed , I yonder he has n't been sending for old Tuncan to be gifing him a song or two on ta peeps ; for he 'll pe hafing ta oceans of fery coot highland plood in his own feins ; and his friend , ta Prince of Wales , who has no more rights to it than a maackerel fish , will pe wearing ta kilts at Holyrood . So mind you pe firing ta cun at sax , my son . '' For some years , young as he was , Malcolm had hired himself to one or other of the boat proprietors of the Seaton or of Scaurnose , for the herring fishing -- only , however , in the immediate neighbourhood , refusing to go to the western islands , or any station whence he could not return to sleep at his grandfather 's cottage .