four o'clock in the morning
In course of time every German bird , one is confident , will have his proper place in a full chorus . This promiscuous and desultory warbling of his must , one feels , be irritating to the precise German mind ; there is no method in it . The music-loving German will organise him . Some stout bird with a specially well-developed crop will be trained to conduct him , and , instead of wasting himself in a wood at four o'clock in the morning , he will , at the advertised time , sing in a beer garden , accompanied by a piano . Things are drifting that way . Your German likes nature , but his idea of nature is a glorified Welsh Harp . He takes great interest in his garden .