"A youngish man came into Small's with a thick outside coat, when a girl asked where he got that coat. He answered that it was taken off a man that came ashore dead, and he had worn it a year or more. The girls or young ladies expressed surprise that he should be willing to wear and said, "You'd not dare go to sea with that coat on." But he answered that he might just as well embark in that coat, as any other."
--HDT (journal 6/12/1852)
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