about twelve o'clock
`` What news stirring , friend ? '' said he to the landlord . `` Naething , sir , '' replied he , as he laid the cloth for his dinner ; `` only that the Regent will pass through the town to-morrow . I hear he 'll be this way about twelve o'clock . The magistrates , I understand , hae gotten notice to that effect . '' `` So , '' replied the stranger . `` Then we shall have a sight . ''