two o'clock
After he had breakfasted or supped he gracefully suggested that he was thirsty by climbing to the table where the water-pitcher stood and stretching his fine feline head towards it . When he had lapped up his saucer of water ; he marched into the parlor , and riveted the chains upon our fondness by taking the best chair and going to sleep in it in attitudes of Egyptian , of Assyrian majesty . His arts were few or none ; he rather disdained to practise any ; he completed our conquest by maintaining himself simply a fascinating presence ; and perhaps we spoiled Jim . It is certain that he came under my window at two o'clock one night , and tried the kitchen door . It resisted his efforts to get in , and then Jim began to use language which I had never heard from the lips of a cat before , and seldom from the lips of a man . I will not repeat it ; enough that it carried to the listener the conviction that Jim was not sober . Where he could have got his liquor in the totally abstinent State of Maine I could not positively say , but probably of some sailor who had brought it from the neighboring New Hampshire coast .