Crossword-Solution: AYONT 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

All that afternoon I persevered in fishing, brought home my basket in triumph, and sometime that night, ‘in the wee sma’ hours ayont the twal,’ I finally forswore the gentle craft of fishing.

The reader will remember the lines of Burns in his address to the "De'il," which so well express the popular notion on this point-- "Ae dreary, windy, winter night, The stars shot down wi' sklentin light, Wi' you, mysel, I got a fright Ayont the lough; Ye, like a rash-bush, stood in sight Wi' waving sough.

The muckle tides lay lang and still as our ain Loch o' the Lee, and far ayont I saw the big blue hills o' England shine bricht and clear.

There was an auld wife ayont the fire, A wee bit o’ the captain’s kin— “Wha daur loose out the captain’s kye, Or answer to him and his men?” “It’s I, Watty Wudspurs, loose the kye, I winna layne my name frae thee! And I will loose out the captain’s kye, In scorn of a’ his men and he.” When they cam to the fair Dodhead, They were a wellcum sight to see! For instead of his ain ten milk-kye, Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three.

And ye might tell, ayont the faem, Thae Hieland clashes o’ our hame To speak the truth, I takna shame To half believe them; And, stamped wi’ _Tusitala’s_ name, They’ll a’ receive them.