The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

I.O. Snopes refers, resentfully, to the men who own the railroad he regularly sues as "them cold hard millionaire railroad magnits" (i.e. magnates, 260) - because when Mannie Hait's husband was killed on the track, they awarded all of the indemnity to her (260).

Old Het "handed the banana she was working on then to a woman beside her and got out the first crumpled ten-dollar bill" (255).

Benbow Sartoris is the son of Narcissa Benbow Sartoris and the late Bayard Sartoris. Benbow is described in the novel as "not big enough to hold a gun" (254).

When I.O. blunders by saying "I reckon it's a few things I could tell a jury myself about - ," this unnamed man asks him, "Tell the jury about what?" (253).

Jefferson volunteer fire fighters arrive too late to save Mrs. Hait's house, although they are in time to "fling her dishes and furniture up and down the street" in the attempt (252).

This man was hired by I.O. Snopes to lead the newly arrived mules from the depot to the lot near Mrs Hait's home.

I.O. Snopes sells mules to "farmers and widows and orphans black and white, for whatever he could get, down to some last irreducible figure" (245).

This officer was unable to convince Mrs. Hait that she should put her money in bonds, a savings account, or a checking account.

The bank's "teller" (244) was unable to convince Mrs. Hait that she should put her money in bonds, a savings account, or a checking account.

After Lonzo Hait's death on the railroad tracks, this man calls on Mrs. Hait, "and in time she cashed a check for eight thousand five hundred dollars" (243).