five o’clock
Before the visit was over , wee Davie would be playing with the dangles of his pipes , and laying his ear to the bag out of which he thought the music came ready-made . And Willie was particularly fond of Davie , and tried to make himself agreeable to him after a hundred grotesque fashions . The awe , however , was constantly renewed in his absence , partly by the threats of the Kelpie , that , if so and so , she would give this one or that to Foolish Willie to take away with him -- a threat which now fell almost powerless upon me , but still told upon Allister and Davie . One day , in early summer -- it was after I had begun to go to school -- I came home as usual at five o'clock , to find the manse in great commotion . Wee Davie had disappeared . They were looking for him everywhere without avail . Already all the farmhouses had been thoroughly searched .