morning, noon
Such a pair of blacks ! It just shows us how simple we Scotch folk are . The London man swindled me out of my lawful room-rent and my Sunday velveteens ; the Eirishers , as will be but too soon seen , made free with my hen-house , committing felonious robbery at the dead hour of night ; and here a decent-looking old Welshman , with a pigtail tied with black tape , palmed a grand coat and waistcoat upon me , that were made away with by a man and his son , a devilish deal too long out of Botany Bay . Benjie , poor doggie , was vastly proud of the flute , which he fifed away on morning , noon , and night ; and , for more than a fortnight , would not go to his bed unless it was laid under his pillow . But for me I could not bide the sight of it , knowing whose hands it had been in , and reminding me as it did of the depravity of human nature . Verily , verily , this is a wonderfully wicked world . To find out the two vagabonds would have been hopeless ; unless I could have followed them to the Back of Beyond , where the mare foaled the fiddler .