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I know I can carry him if I try hard enough, and I will bury him across the field, near the fencerow, under the big jack oak tree.

The jack oak, Quercus ellipsoidalis Hill, is a smaller tree found frequently alongside black oak in the northern third of the State.

Jessie was right: there were no jack oaks in the ravine down which Mr. Horton must have passed on the way from the north pasture to his home.

If Sounder was dead, he hoped no one would come along and see him carrying the grub hoe and shovel across the field to the big jack oak.

Under the jack oaks and the cottonwoods there was nothing.