A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to .
He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher.
As a respectable father (ten children), he was roused by the rascalities of a French wencher, hoped that "Some Gentleman would only Cetch the Low minded Dog and Cow hyde him well.