Spring at Burden Place (Location Key)

In Light in August Joe Christmas keeps the illegal whiskey he sells buried in a ditch in "a small valley in which a spring rose" in the woods beyond the Burden plantation pasture (110). The water flowing out of the spring is described as "ceaseless," but it's smooth enough to allow him to shave "using the water's surface for a glass" (111). The ditch is described as having "a smooth, sandblanched floor between steep shelving walls, choked, flank and crest, with brier and brush" (112).