Who is Potty Peake from The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals and what is their importance? The_Nine_Tailors English & Literature Potty Peake | The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals

Orris "Potty" Peake is a mentally handicapped man living in the village. He has the job of pumping the bellows organ in the church and feeding pigs. He has a complex about ropes and hanging, dating to the time that he found his mother's body after she committed suicide by hanging herself. Potty Peake is pious in his way, and his simple-minded actions make him a witness to part of what happened in the church: he was feeling grateful for a good dinner, so he went to the church at night to give thanks, and he was sitting behind the tomb of Abbot Thomas and saw Will Thoday talking to the bearded stranger, talking about money and getting a rope from the cope-chest.