vivid picture of life in the mythical county of Yoknapataupha, Mississippi. This story is recounted from

The memories of a man named Colonel Sartoris Snopes (named after Colonel Sartoris whom his father

His father was obviously a man of little or no education who had developed an attitude in life of serving

himself and no one else. He, at any perceived or real injustice always took matters into his own hands. The

story begins with him on trial for burning a neighbors barn after sending a black man over for his hog and

actually warning the man that hay and wood burn. Shortly thereafter the neighbors barn burned and the

story opens in a court of the Justice of the Peace. The then young boy is remembering all this and the

details of the court room which was actually a storeroom in a grocery apparently based on the tin goods

stored in the room. The man whose barn was burned asks that the boy testify and the judge is incredulous

as this was not proper decorum in that time. Finally, the man relents and says the boy does not have to

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