about ten in the morning
said I. `` And what 's more than all that : if ye pass a bridge , it can tell no tales ; but if we pass the firth , there 's the boat on the wrong side -- somebody must have brought it -- the countryside will all be in a bizz -- '' `` Man ! '' cried Alan , `` if I make a boat , I 'll make a body to take it back again ! So deave me with no more of your nonsense , but walk -LRB- for that 's what you 've got to do -RRB- -- and let Alan think for ye . '' All night , then , we walked through the north side of the Carse , under the high line of the Ochil mountains ; and by Alloa and Clackmannan and Culross , all of which we avoided : and about ten in the morning , mighty hungry and tired , came to the little clachan of Limekilns . This is a place that sits near in by the waterside and looks across the Hope to the town of the Queen 's Ferry . Smoke went up from both of these and from other villages and farms upon all hands . The fields were being reaped ; two ships lay anchored , and boats were coming and going on the Hope .