Beside Mrs. Littlejohn's boarding house is a fenced-in lot with a barn on one side. Her boarders put their horses or mules there, and the Texan tries to keep the ponies there as well.
Mrs. Littlejohn's boarding house in Frenchman's Bend appears in 5 different fictions. 3 of these - "Spotted Horses," The Hamlet, The Town - mention the adjacent barn or "livery barn" and fenced-in lot that are there to provide a place for her tenants to keep their horses and mules while staying with her (Hamlet, 31). Faulkner uses the lot in all three of these texts to tell the story of the wild ponies that Flem Snopes brought back with him from Texas, and the chaos that ensued after they were auctioned off and escaped from in the lot.
