The first morning after I bought the clock the thing went off just as it was beginning to break day.

I got up and stopped it and then went back to bed.

Hartwick growled, but we both went to sleep.

I had been snoozing about five minutes when the clock broke loose once more.

Hartwick was mad, you bet! I opened my eyes just in time to see him sit up in bed with one of his shoes in his hand.
Whiz! Before I could stop him he flung the shoe at the clock.