All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker. One of the cocks of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew. I remmember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his rum, and which, before the end, was nothing but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum. The great sea-shest none to us had ever seen open