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• Katie: Major de Spain's one-eyed mule which "would not spook at the smell of blood, of wild animals," used during hunting trips in "The Bear" section of Go Down, Moses. On a hunt when Ike McCaslin was sixteen (the hunt during which Boon Hogganbeck killed Old Ben), General Compson insisted that Ike ride Katie because Ike was a better woodsman.

• Keeley: Apparently a hospital for alcohol and/or drug addicts in Memphis. Uncle Willy Christian was sent to Keeley in Memphis after becoming bankrupt and Mrs. Merridew was named his guardian and trustee, but he managed to escape in "Uncle Willy."

• Kemp, Beasley: A man in The Hamlet (and "Fool About a Horse") who traded Ab Snopes a horse that he had bought the previous summer for $8.00 from Herman Short.

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• Kenny: One of the three boys Quentin Compson saw fishing on the day he committed suicide in The Sound and the Fury.

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• Kyrilytch, Vladimir:
  

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