"In course I does.  But they heard 'im gaspin', an cut him down in time to save him.  It was drink they say as made him do it, and they got him to sign the pledge arterwards.  I believe he's kep' it too.  Leastwise I know many a hard drinker as have bin indooced to give it up and stuck to it--all through comin' here to have a snooze in a comfortable hunk. They give the bunks names--cubicles they calls 'em in the lump. Separately, there's the `Commodore Goodenough Cot,' an' the `Little Nellie Cot,' an' the `Sunshine Cot'--so called 'cause it hain't got a port-hole to let in the daylight at all; and the `Billy Rough 'un'--"