hat-stitcher

Updated: May 10, 2025

"Ten on' em," says Leggs. "There's one on 'em now that fellow stitching a hat." "Halloo, you, sir!" cried the master-at-arms, "top your boom and sail large, now. If I see you about me again, I'll have you up to the mast." "What am I a-doin' now?" says the hat-stitcher, with a face as long as a rope-walk.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War