seven o'clock
McTurkle performed on the French horn . A French horn is an instrument which is wound up in a knot like a morning-glory vine , and the notes have such a hard time getting out that they get all balled up and confused and are never the same afterwards . I 'm not musical , and do n't pretend to be , but I 'll bet a hat that the man who invented the French horn was the same chap who invented French verbs . Well , we made McTurkle take a solemn oath never to practice after seven o'clock , because it was simply impossible to remember anything with those sounds sobbing along the entry . He was frightfully apologetic and promised at once . When we went in Bud winked at us to leave the negotiations in his hands . We did so , drawing up in a semicircle behind him and looking very grave .