The horse trader Pat Stamper tricked one of these characters into trading for two worn-out mules in the story "Fool about a Horse," later incorporated into a novel about them. That same character purposely rubbed cow manure into the white rug of Major de Spain, whose insistence on reparations leads that character to commit 
The horse trader Pat Stamper tricked one of these characters into trading for two worn-out mules in the story "Fool about a Horse," later incorporated into a novel about them. That same character purposely rubbed cow manure into the white rug of Major de Spain, whose insistence on reparations leads that character to commit arson on the Major's barn. That character's son marries Eula Varner and takes over the Jefferson bank from Manfred de Spain, though he is eventually killed by his cousin Mink at the end of The Mansion, the last novel in the trilogy named for this family. Including Ab, Sarty, and Flem, what is this family of hardscrabble characters in the works of William Faulkner?
The horse trader Pat Stamper tricked one of these characters into trading for two worn-out mules in the story "Fool about a Horse," later incorporated into a novel about them.
{Snopes} (accept “Ab” or “Flem” in front of surname)