Sentence:  ... my Business was now to try if I could not make Jackets out of the great Watch-Coats which I had by me, and with such other Materials as I had, so I set to Work a Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching, for I made most <WSD>piteous</WSD> Work of it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of little importance or value.