Jefferson Hardware Store|McCaslin Hardware Store in "Fool About a Horse" (Location)

The milk separator that the narrator's mother wants is sold in a hardware store. A number of Yoknapatawpha texts include hardware stores in town; in Faulkner's first two novels the store is owned by Watts and Earl, respectively. Here is belong to "Uncle Ike McCaslin" (121) appears in various roles several Yoknapatawpha texts as well (121), including the central one in Go Down, Moses (1942), but either as a hunter or a carpenter rather than a small businessman. In this short story, however, the store (and the "warehouse" behind it, and even the "alley" behind it; 129, 128) are all identified with Ike. He again owns the hardware store in Faulkner's last three novels, The Mansion, The Town and The Reivers.