five o'clock
Andrew heard the men calling to each other as they made their way to the pit , the lights from their lamps twinkling in the darkness of the winter morning . `` Is Tam away yet , Jamie ? '' he heard wee Allan ask , as he overtook old Jamie Lauder on his way to the pit . `` Ay , I saw to that , '' replied Lauder , `` I chappit him up at five o'clock , so that he wadna sleep in . I hinna missed a creelin ' for thirty-five years , an ' I wasna ' gaun to miss Tam Donaldson 's . I heard him goin ' oot two or three minutes afore me . We 're in for a guid day , for he telt me he had in two bottles for the spree . ''