noon
Be it what it may , now , it was so direfully impressed at tea-time by Mr. Snagsby 's account of the inquiry at which he had assisted that at supper-time she projected herself into the kitchen , preceded by a flying Dutch cheese , and fell into a fit of unusual duration , which she only came out of to go into another , and another , and so on through a chain of fits , with short intervals between , of which she has pathetically availed herself by consuming them in entreaties to Mrs. Snagsby not to give her warning `` when she quite comes to , '' and also in appeals to the whole establishment to lay her down on the stones and go to bed . Hence , Mr. Snagsby , at last hearing the cock at the little dairy in Cursitor Street go into that disinterested ecstasy of his on the subject of daylight , says , drawing a long breath , though the most patient of men , `` I thought you was dead , I am sure ! '' What question this enthusiastic fowl supposes he settles when he strains himself to such an extent , or why he should thus crow -LRB- so men crow on various triumphant public occasions , however -RRB- about what can not be of any moment to him , is his affair . It is enough that daylight comes , morning comes , noon comes . Then the active and intelligent , who has got into the morning papers as such , comes with his pauper company to Mr. Krook 's and bears off the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed , while our dear brothers and sisters who hang about official back-stairs -- would to heaven they HAD departed ! -- are very complacent and agreeable . Into a beastly scrap of ground which a Turk would reject as a savage abomination and a Caffre would shudder at , they bring our dear brother here departed to receive Christian burial .