Four o’clock
Professor Wheezy may reconcile this very extraordinary conduct with _ his _ notions of fair and equitable dealing , but I would recommend Professor Wheezy to be cautious how he presumes too far upon his well-earned reputation . How such a man as Professor Snore , or , which is still more extraordinary , such an individual as Professor Doze , can quietly allow himself to be mixed up with such proceedings as these , you will naturally inquire . Upon this head , rumour is silent ; I have my speculations , but forbear to give utterance to them just now . ' ` _ Four o'clock _ . ` THE town is filling fast ; eighteenpence has been offered for a bed and refused . Several gentlemen were under the necessity last night of sleeping in the brick fields , and on the steps of doors , for which they were taken before the magistrates in a body this morning , and committed to prison as vagrants for various terms . One of these persons I understand to be a highly-respectable tinker , of great practical skill , who had forwarded a paper to the President of Section D. Mechanical Science , on the construction of pipkins with copper bottoms and safety-values , of which report speaks highly .