The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

This man, the senior of the two representatives from De Spain's bonding company, has "gray hair" and comes to town wearing "striped britches and a gold watch chain big enough to boom logs with and gold eyeglasses and even a gold toothpick and the pigeon-tailed coat and the plug hat" (88).

Ratliff calls the first man sent to Jefferson by the company that insures the bond on Mayor de Spain a "pleasant young feller" who realizes at the end of "one quick horrified day" that settling Gavin's law suit calls for someone with more experience (87).

This bailiff "hollers 'Order! Order in the court!'" at Mink Snopes' murder trial when Mink calls for Flem instead of paying attention to the proceedings (86).

This court-appointed lawyer is assigned to Mink Snopes at his murder trial.

This judge oversees Mink Snopes' murder trial, "banging his little mallet" (86). (He is mentioned in all three volumes of the Snopes trilogy, but not given the name Brummage until the last one, The Mansion.)

A large crowd comes to watch Mink Snopes' trial for murder; people are "still crowding in long after they had run out of anything to set on" (86).

While the attorneys are choosing the jury that will try Mink Snopes on the charge of murder, Mink himself ignores the court's processes.

This court clerk reads the indictment at Mink's trial and asks him how he pleads - "'guilty or not guilty?'" (86).

The members of the grand jury indict Mink Snopes for murdering Zack Houston.

'Fish grabbling' means catching fish underwater with one's bare hands. These men are doing that when they find Mink Snopes' shotgun in the slough where he had thrown it.