six o'clock
Perry was also thinking that other classical thought , about how cowardly suicide is . A noble thought that one -- warm and inspiring . Think of all the fine men we should lose if suicide were not so cowardly ! An hour later was six o'clock , and Perry had lost all resemblance to the young man in the liniment advertisement . He looked like a rough draft for a riotous cartoon . They were singing -- an impromptu song of Baily 's improvisation : _ `` One Lump Perry , the parlor snake , Famous through the city for the way he drinks his tea ; Plays with it , toys with it Makes no noise with it , Balanced on a napkin on his well-trained knee -- '' _ `` Trouble is , '' said Perry , who had just banged his hair with Baily 's comb and was tying an orange tie round it to get the effect of Julius Caesar , `` that you fellas ca n't sing worth a damn . Soon 's I leave the air and start singing tenor you start singin ' tenor too . '' ''