Blacksmith Shop on Compson Farm (Location Key)

Like the cabin that Sam Fathers lives in before he moves out to the big woods, the blacksmith shop where he works is one of the locations that Faulkner moves around to suit his changing imaginative project. In "A Justice," it's on the Compson farm. In it Sam makes and repairs items for the farm, including "breast-yokes" and "wagon wheels" (344). It is also here that he tells Quentin the story of how he got to have two names. (In two later texts Faulkner moves this blacksmith shop to two other plantations; those Locations have other entries in the index.)