The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Hoke's is "a sawmill and a few stores" (188), apparently populated almost entirely by men. Most of these "wear muddy boots and khaki," indicating their status as mill workers (188). After the hunt, "the people at Hoke's had heard that we had got Old Ben and about Lion: there must have been a hundred men come in during the afternoon to look at Old Ben and then to look at Lion" (197).

This woman passerby is wounded in the leg by one of the four wild shots Boon Hogganbeck fires on the street in Jefferson.