the coffin is removed and it is discovered that Vardamn has drilled the holes too deep, puncturing Addie's face in two places. The Bundren's soon run into more trouble and the coffin is once again damaged. They arrive at the river and find that the bridge has been washed out. This should have come as no shock to them because they had been told this news many days in advance and from many different sources. However Anse disregards all advice and takes his own route to the burial ground. "If it was just up, we could drive across. We could drive right on across."(124) He mutters these words many times as if he had hoped that all the news he had heard of the bridge was untrue and that the bridge was still standing. He is determined to get across the river though. With the aid of Vernon Tull's borrowed mules, the wagon is slowly pulled through the icy cold river. The danger is not only in the fast-moving current, but also in the logs that are fl
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