"Mule in the Yard", 252 (Event)
Text:
Page Number:
252
Order within Page:
2
First 8-10 words of event:
once a town wag sent him through the mail
Page Event Ends:
252
Era:
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present:
Narrative Status:
Narrated
Date:
Thursday, January 1, 1920 to Wednesday, April 30, 1924
Notes:
The story is dated contemporary when Faulkner wrote it, which, according to Theresa Towner and James B. Carothers in _Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories_, "is uncertain, it may have been written in the late winter or early spring of 1933-34. The story was published in August 1934 by _Scribner's_" (133). This story was later incorporated into Chapter 16 of _The Town_ and narrated by Charles Mallison. The date of this day's events in _The Town_ would be 1927, the year that Eula Varner dies.
Summary:
As a joke a citizen of Jefferson sends Snopes a railroad schedule.
Chronological Order:
3.00
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Keywords:
railroad schedule
joke
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