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In The Hamlet Ratliff asks this man in Columbia, Tennessee, about "the whereabouts of his [Ratliff's] cousin," and sells him a sewing machine (61).

The "committing magistrate" presides over the arraignment of Mink Snopes in The Hamlet (287). (Elsewhere in the fictions characters are arraigned in front of 'Justices of the Peace,' which is another term for 'magistrate.')

Following Labove's admission to the Bar in The Hamlet, these men are present at the celebration for the graduating class in a hotel dining room.

While at the University in Oxford in The Hamlet, Labove lives in a "boarding house" owned by this landlady (129).

Part of the time Ratliff is away from Yoknapatawpha in The Hamlet is spent selling sewing machines in Tennessee; there he spends time with "a distant kinsman" - i.e. someone to whom he is distantly related - who owes him money (61).

Flem Snopes sells the machinery from the old blacksmith shop to "a junk man" (74). The Hamlet does not indicate whether this man is black or white.

The man in The Hamlet who makes a joke accusing Mink Snopes' wife of prostitution is described as "a town wit" (289).

The tailor in The Hamlet who makes Jody Varner's distinctive clothing - a "glazed collarless white shirt" fastened with "a heaving gold collar-button" and a jacket of black broadcloth (7) - is himself not described.

This teacher at the "agricultural college" that Labove briefly attends lurks inside the way The Hamlet describes the woman with whom Labove has an affair as "the wife of a minor instructor" (151).