about four o'clock
No doubt babies are very nice when they do n't squawk or pull your nose or jab you in the eye , but through some strange and prevailing misfortune I have never encountered one when it was asleep . If they are asleep , the parents compel me to walk on tip-toe and speak in whispers at long range ; the instant they awake and begin to yawp , I am ushered into the presence , or vice versa , and the whole world grows very small and congested and is carried about in swaddling clothes . There is but one way for a bachelor to overcome his horror of babies , and he should n't wait too long . I went to sleep about four o'clock , still oppressed by the dread of meeting a new baby . My contact with the one hundred and sixty-nine sight-seers was brief but exceedingly convincing . They invaded the castle before I was out of bed , having -- as I afterwards heard -- the breweries , an art gallery and the Zoological gardens to visit before noon and therefore were required to make an early start . The cathedral , which is always open to visitors and never has any one sleeping in it , was reserved for the afternoon .