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Jack makes an exaggerated show of trying to hobble around the table on his “peg leg.”

Redd’s father took him to see traveling minstrel shows when he was a boy, and he was particularly struck by the one-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates moving to the rhythm of a trap drummer.

After divorcing his second wife, he fell madly in love with a Vogue magazine illustrator, and thus began his last incarnation, hobnobbing with the actor Paul Robeson in Manhattan and trotted out by anyone needing a giant, bearded Arctic explorer with a peg leg.

After years in and out of the hospital and the amputation of his leg, he taught himself to dance again, inspired in part by Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates, a legendary one-legged hoofer who died in 1998.

Knight believes the one-legged horse-cart driver known by everyone at the time as “Peg Leg” Sullivan had been drinking when he accidentally dropped his cigar in the barn.