eleven o'clock in the morning
Regarded my superficial ideas of statesmanship with profound contempt , but left after a fortnight , having allowed a highly confidential and extremely personal pencil note , written in the margin of a despatch by the Premier himself , to blossom forth in large type in the text of a Blue Book . _ Number Three _ . -- Rather elderly for the post -- nearer forty than thirty -- but highly recommended . Reduced my chaotic papers to order in twenty-four hours , charmed my wife and her sisters , drafted a speech which won me quite a little ovation in the House , suggested several notable improvements in the `` Importation of Mad Dogs Bill , '' with which I was to be entrusted next session -- and was found lying dead drunk in his bedroom , at eleven o'clock in the morning , on the second Sunday after his arrival . Half a dozen empty brandy bottles were afterwards discovered on the top of his wardrobe . Poor devil ! _ Number Four _ .