Possible Clues:

• Premature
• Inopportune
• Premature, too soon
• Happening too soon, perhaps like death
• Always too early, never too late
• Happening too soon, maybe death
• It's too early for a French one and the boy to get to that place in Dublin
• It's too soon to consider the clock useless, perhaps
• Not punctual, it seems: too soon
• Tiny mule being unsuitable or premature