The Delta Inset: Bayou (Location Key)

A "bayou" is a swamp-like body of water, sluggish or stagnant, usually adjacent to a river (298). In other fictions Faulkner usually uses the term 'slough' for this natural feature. It can be shallow enough to wade or, like this bayou in "Race at Morning," deep enough to swim a horse, and it can be big enough to contain, as this one does, "a little canebrake island" in its middle where a deer can make its bed (299).