"Maury Priest's livery stable" (11) provides the people and businesses of Jefferson with a variety of services: distributing "boxes and cases of freight" from the railroad depot to the town's stores (4), taxiing people from the depot to the hotels or home from the opera house (8), and so on. The day and night foremen are white, but otherwise the staff - drivers, hostlers, blacksmith and stall cleaners - are mostly black. In addition to the stable, it contains an office and a harness room.
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The name of the man Quentin's narrative calls "Grandfather" is never given in this story, but he appears in eleven other Yoknapatawpha texts, and several of them, including the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that Faulkner published in 1946, identify the full name of the paternal grandfather of the Compson children as "Jason Lycurgus Compson II." While he is deceased at the time Quentin Compson is narrating "A Justice," he would take his grandchildren to the Compson family farm "every Saturday afternoon" (343).
Hardwick is the seat of the county with Parsham in it, and thirteen miles away from the town. The County Sheriff's office, with its jail, is located there.
The store where Ned makes his purchase in The Reivers is one of two in Parsham. It is "across the tracks" from the hotel, on "what would have been the other side of the Square if Parsham ever got big enough to have a Square" (256).
The doctor who treats Lucius in The Reivers lives "about a mile" outside of Parsham (184). His office is in his house, "a little once-white house in a little yard filled with . . . rank-growing, rank-smelling dusty flowers" (185-86).
Faulkner's last novel, The Reivers, includes this large and prosperous estate. It's owned by Colonel Linscomb, but still known as the "old Parsham place" after the previous owner who gave the town and some of the area's Negro residents their name (274). Lucius calls it a "plantation," and except for the fact that the people who work on it are "tenants" rather than slaves, it is laid out as an antebellum plantation: "big neat fields of sprouting cotton and corn, and pastures with good fences and tenant cabins and cotton houses" (218).
