r I paid pretty dear for
            my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.</p>
            <p><a name="id380445"><!--anchor--></a>But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one
            leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who
            knew him. There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water
            than his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his
            wicked, old, wild s