eleven o'clock
-- he took the chincough , and in more respects than one was not in a good way ; so the doctor recommended his mother and me , for the change of air , first to carry him down a coal-pit , and syne to the limekilns at Cousland . The coal-pit I could not think of at all ; to say nothing of the danger of swinging down into the bowels of the earth in a creel , the thing aye put me in mind of the awful place , where the wicked , after death and judgment , howl , and hiss , and gnash their teeth ; and where , unless Heaven be more merciful than we are just -- we may all be soon enough . So I could not think of that , till other human means failed ; and I determined , in the first place , to hire Tammie Dobbie 's cart , and try a smell of the fresh air about the limekilns . It was a fine July forenoon , and the cart , filled with clean straw , was at the door by eleven o'clock ; so our wife handed us out a pair of blankets to hap round me , and syne little Benjie into my arms , with his big-coatie on , and his leather cappie tied below his chin , and a bit red worsted comforterie round his neck ; for , though the sun was warm and pleasant withal , we dreaded cold , as the doctor bade us . Oh , he was a fine old man , Doctor Hartshorn ! We had not well got out of the town , when Tammie Dobbie louped up on the fore-tram . He was a crouse , cantie auld cock , having seen much and not little in his day ; so he began a pleasant confab , pointing out all the gentlemen 's houses round the country , and the names of the farms on the hill sides .