five o'clock
That is what Peggy says to Jenny in Allan Ramsay 's poem , and if you substitute `` Crummylowe '' for `` Habbie 's Howe '' in the first line , you will have a lovely picture of the Farm-Steadin ' . You come to it by turning the corner from the inn , first passing the cottage where the lady wishes to rent two rooms for fifteen shillings a week , but will not give much attendance , as she is slightly asthmatic , and the house is always as clean as it is this minute , and the view from the window looking out on Pettybaw Bay canna be surpassed at ony money . Then comes the little house where Will ` am Beattie 's sister Mary died in May , and there wasna a bonnier woman in Fife . Next is the cottage with the pansy garden , where the lady in the widow 's cap takes five o'clock tea in the bay window , and a snug little supper at eight . She has for the first scones and marmalade , and her tea is in a small black teapot under a red cozy with a white muslin cover drawn over it . At eight she has more tea , and generally a kippered herring , or a bit of cold mutton left from the noon dinner . We note the changes in her bill of fare as we pass hastily by and feel admitted quite into the family secrets .