About two o'clock in the morning
And so they had drawn blank at Hairyfithill . `` It wad serve him richt , if every tattie in his fields was ta'en awa ' , '' said Matthew Maitland , after the story had been told and laughed over . `` It wad that , '' agreed a score of voices ; but nothing was done nor anything further said , so the dancing proceeded . About two o'clock in the morning while the dancing was still going on and a fire had been kindled at the corner in which some of the strikers were roasting potatoes and onions a great commotion was suddenly caused , when Dickie Tamson and two other boys drove in among them old Hairyfithill 's sow which he was fattening for the market . Some proposed that the pig be killed at once . `` Oh no , dinna kill it , '' said Matthew Maitland , with real alarm in his voice . `` Ye 'd get into a row for that .