- Darl and Jewel are in the wagon and on the road, hot in pursuit of that three dollars. Darl notes that Jewel has gotten a haircut in town this week.
- Darl keeps asking Jewel whether or not he knows that Addie Bundren is going to die.
- Darl recounts a conversation he had with Dewey Dell, regarding the unspoken pregnancy and whether she wants their mom to die so she can go to town (presumably to get an abortion).
- He is disgusted when he thinks of how Peabody is so obese that he will need help getting up the hill to their house.