three o'clock in the morning
The rascal had one accomplishment , he had a heavenly voice -- quite in the rough , to be sure -- and he played , on the violin like an angel . He did not know one note from another , but he played in a sweet natural way , just as Orpheus must have played , by ear . The drunker he was the more pathos and humor he wrung from the old violin , his sole piece of personal property . He had a singular fancy for getting up at two or three o'clock in the morning , and playing by an open casement , to the distraction of all the dogs in the immediate neighborhood and innumerable dogs in the distance . Unfortunately , Mr. O'Rourke 's freaks were not always of so innocent a complexion . On one or two occasions , through an excess of animal and other spirits , he took to breaking windows in the town . Among his nocturnal feats he accomplished the demolition of the glass in the door of The Wee Drop .