DESCRIBE GEORGE'S UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE OF GOING OUT IN WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING ?
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George’s unusual experience of going out in the wee hours of the morning is quite funny. It happened because of the malfunctioning of his watch. George narrated the experience to the author during their journey. It happened to him some eighteen months ago, when he was lodging by himself in the house of a certain Mrs. Gippings. He said his watch went wrong one evening, and stopped at a quarter-past eight. He did not know this at the time because, for some reason or other, he forgot to wind it up when he went to bed, and hung it up over his pillow without ever looking at the thing. It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest and foggy day. It was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up, and hauled down his watch. It was a quarter-past eight. And he flung the watch down, and sprang out of bed, and had a cold bath, and washed himself, and dressed himself, and shaved himself in cold water because there was not time to wait for the hot, and then rushed and had another look at the watch. Whether the shaking it had received in being thrown down on the bed had started it, or how it was, George could not say, but certain it was that from a quarter-past eight it had begun to go, and now pointed to twenty minutes to nine.
George snatched it up, and rushed downstairs. In the sitting-room, all was dark and silent: there was no fire, no breakfast. George said it was a wicked shame of Mrs. G., and he made up his mind to tell her what he thought of her when he came home in the evening. Then he dashed on his great-coat and hat, and, seizing his umbrella, made for the front door. The door was not even unbolted. George anathematized Mrs. G. for a lazy old woman, and thought it was very strange that people could not get up at a decent, respectable time, unlocked and unbolted the door, and ran out.
He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open. Getting suspicious of time, he went to the policeman on duty and asked him what time it was. The policeman suspiciously looked at him and then the clock-tower struck three. Considering George a bit cranky, the policeman advised George to go to his home and wait till morning.