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This "Four-F potato chip salesman" ran off with Mrs. Goodyhay while Goodyhay himself was serving in World War II (294). ("4F" is not a brand of potato chips, but a draft designation which made one ineligible for military service.)

Goodyhay's wife ran off with a "sonabitching Four-F potato chip salesman" when her husband went to war (294).

The itinerant worker whom Mink meets at Goodyhay's house. He is "apparently as old as" Mink, and wears "a battle jacket" (293).

A former "Marine sergeant" (295) who, after seeing a vision of Jesus during a battle in the Pacific, comes back to the U.S. to run a religious community out of his ramshackle house. His wife reportedly "ran off" with a salesman while Goodyhay was at war (294). He is described as "a lean quick-moving man in the middle thirties with coldly seething eyes and the long upper lip of a lawyer or an orator and the long chin of the old-time comic trip Puritan" (293).

Holcomb is a "thick but not fat and not old" woman who gives Mink chores around the house and points him in the direction of Brother Goodyhay (291).

After his experience with crime and punishment, the first time Mink buys a "soft drink" in a country store he imagines a sheriff will "come for him" if he takes the change from his purchase (287).

The "young Negro man" whom Mink sees inside the small store in Lake Cormorant is wearing the "remnants of an army uniform" (286). He obeys the store proprietor's command to drive Mink down the road, but at the same time subtly tries to let Mink know that the white man had cheated him.

"The proprietor" of the "small tight neatly-cluttered store" where Mink buys his first food after leaving prison takes advantage of Mink's ignorance about prices (286-86).