A pair of black gloves, the most phenomenal, abnormal, and unexpected apparition conceivable in Flat Creek district, where the preachers wore no coats in the summer, and where a black glove was never seen except on the hands of the Squire.
3.

A wig of that dirty, waxen color so common to wigs.

This one showed a continual inclination to slip off the owner's smooth, bald pate, and the Squire had frequently to adjust it.

As his hair had been red, the wig did not accord with his face, and the hair ungrayed was doubly discordant with a countenance shrivelled by age.
4.

A semicircular row of whiskers hedging the edge of the jaw and chin.
These were dyed a frightful dead-black, such a color as belonged to no natural hair or beard that ever existed.