The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Lonzo Hait (259) was in a scheme with I.O. Snopes to defraud the railroad by tethering a few of Snopes's mules to a blind curve on the railroad tracks; I.O. would then claim compensation from the company for his destroyed property. On one such occasion, Hait was killed along with the mules.

This woman is mentioned during Wilbur Provine's trial for making and selling illegal liquor. Judge Long tells her husband, "I'm going to send you to the penitentiary, not for making whiskey but for letting your wife carry water a mile and a half from that spring" (178).

This "somebody" is the pilot who witnessed Sartoris "roosting about five thousand feet above an old Ack.W." - i.e. Sartoris is circling in his plane above a comrade flying a less maneuverable aircraft "for bait" to attract the German aviator who had shot down his brother (414). Ack.W. was military slang for a British World War I plane made by Armstrong Whitworth.

All we can say about "the other guy" who was flying with Sartoris' brother when he was shot down is that he was serving as a British aviator, presumably in the same "Camel squadron" as Sartoris; given all the non-English aviators in the story, we cannot even say where he was from (414). The Sopwith Camel was a standard single-seat British aircraft during World War I.

The name "Das" is a common South Asian name, derived from Sanskrit. One of its meanings, however, is 'servant,' so it may be used by the subadar in the story not as a name but as a respectful title of address. In either case, this character is "the headman" who supervises the native military personnel; after the battalion's disastrous attack on German lines, he reluctantly admits to the subadar that his troops crossed No Man's Land with unloaded rifles, and almost their entire batallion was annihilated (425).