They wanted to touch his piebald skin and for him to touch them.

"What else would you expect from a man consumed by wigs and the heartbreak of piebald skin?"

The hunched conditlon of the youngster's body was more evident by full daylight and his piebald skin more striking.

They care no more for the jewels than for common stones; but they can smell a man from fifty miles away and lay on him their curse of a thousand itches, or a fiery bladder, or piebald skin.