noon
He said last night that he would be up in time for breakfast , if he was alive . Well , you can hear him snoring in the next room ; but , since he is not up , I am going to consider him dead , and I want you to put up his tombstone . Now , do you think that you can go carefully and put this at the head of his bed without waking him ? '' Laying the stone on her knee , she soon had it written over in large , plain letters , and hoping that Plaisted might sleep till noon , as he often did , she slipped downstairs to await results . It is not often that a man is roused from sleep by his own tombstone falling on him , but that is how was at last awakened . Quite likely Frankie , fearing to awaken him , did not place it very securely . However , as Plaisted was about to turn over for another snooze , down came the marble slab on his papered head !