Seven o'clock
`` O , ay , yea , I daursay ; it 's a ' richt , '' says Sandy . `` I was mindin ' aboot Sirias , the nearest fixed star , ye ken . I winder what it 's fixed wi ' ? '' Seven o'clock cam ' roond , an ' Dauvid 's bairns gaed throo oor entry like 's they 'd startit for Sandy 's fixed star . They wudda gane through the washin ' - hoose door if it hadna happened to be open . I had forgotten aboot them at the time ; but , keep me , when they cam ' oot o ' Dauvid 's efter their tea , I floo to the door . I thocht it was somebody run ower .