White Jacket (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544736198)

So, with many odds and ends of patches-old socks, old trowser-legs, and the like-I bedarned and bequilted the inside of my jacket, till it became, all over, stiff and padded, as King James's cotton-stuffed and dagger-proof doublet; and no buckram or steel hauberk stood up more stoutly. So far, very good; but pray, tell me, White-Jacket, how do you propose keeping out the rain and the wet in this quilted grego of yours? You don't call this wad of old patches a Mackintosh, do you?--you don't pretend to say that worsted is water-proof? No, my dear friend; and that was the deuce of it. Waterproof it was not, no more than a sponge. Indeed, with such recklessness had I bequilted my jacket, that in a rain-storm I became a universal absorber; swabbing bone-dry the very bulwarks I leaned against.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1544736193
ISBN-13: 9781544736198
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2017
Pages: 422
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.86d