Young Bayard mentions him during his talk with Rafe MacCallum "about the war"; the memory features a fight in "the Leicester lounge" in which "the Anzac lost two teeth" and Bayard himself "got a black eye" (124). The fight may have been over "two ladies," and may have been between Bayard and the Major, but none of that is made clear. Faulkner may have meant this character to be the same as the Australian captain whose teeth Bayard knocks out in a bar in London (cf.
This icon represents the pilots whom Young Bayard evokes when he talks to Rafe MacCallum "about the war"; the narrator describes them as "young men like fallen angels, and of a meteoric violence like that of fallen angels" (123).
"Samson's bridge" is the site of young John Sartoris' adventure with the fox. When Rafe MacCallum tells the story, he gives no details about where it's located, except that it is on a "river" (353), but presumably it is the same bridge as the one next to Samson's store and farm in As I Lay Dying, and is so located here. This is a long ways away from the other MacCallum settings in the novel, but in As I Lay Dying one of the MacCallum boys is at Samson's when the Bundrens get there - making the idea that the family hunted in this southern part of Yoknapatawpha more plausi
In two of the three texts that mention "Samson's bridge" (As I Lay Dying, "Spotted Horses") there's no doubt that it crosses the Yoknapatawpha River near Frenchman's Bend - though much of it is under the river in the flood described in the novel. The bridge is first mentioned in Flags in the Dust, as the site of young John Sartoris' adventure with the fox (353). That story, told by Rafe MacCallum, gives no clue to the location of the river or the bridge, but we assume it's the same "Samson's bridge" as in the other texts.
The older of the two Negroes who work in Rogers' restaurant. The narrative does not explicitly call him the cook, but since it describes the cooking that is going on and identifies the "younger of the two," Houston, as the waiter, it seems safe to assume this older Negro is the cook.
