Tallahatchie River Bottom in "A Justice" (Location)

In the vocabulary of Yoknapatawpha, a river or creek "bottom" is the low-lying, swampy, overgrown area on one or both sides of the water. In this story it is dense enough to provide hiding places "in hollow logs" for "the People" as a group (350). It also provides the "saplings" from which to build a fence around a slave cabin (359).