The Coat of Many Colours was so called because he wore a garment consisting of patches of cloth of various colours sewed together.

It hung down to his heels.

He may have been cracked rather than inspired, but he was a power in the square where he preached, the women declaring that he was gifted by God.

An awe filled even the men, when he admonished them for using strong language, for at such a time he would remind them of the woe which fell upon Tibbie Mason.

Tibbie had been notorious in her day for evil-speaking, especially for her free use of the word handless, which she flung a hundred times in a week at her man, and even at her old mother.