<P> Bonnie Solomon's love interest . She's the daughter of an abusive father and is hired by Solomon as a housewife . The two live together for almost seven years . They finally admit they want to get married as she and Sol are in the roof rafters trying to ride out a hurricane . She is ripped away from Sol and is counted among the 2,000 dead . Sol later dislikes the lake which carried their house away and dikes it . </P> <P> Skillit A black former slave . He is encountered by Tobias after slavery was banned, wearing only a pair of feed sack pants . He had nowhere to go, and was on the run when Tobias' dogs found him hiding in a hole . Tobias hires him . He is a great help in catching cows, since he is much stronger than all the other cattle drovers . He eventually marries a former slave, Pearlie Mae . He leaves later to start a farm, calling himself Skillit MacIvey on the land deed . Skillit only appears two more times in the book: when he returns for Tobias's funeral and when Sol remembers all the people in his life . </P> <P> Pearlie Mae A black former slave . Though half his age, she marries Skillit and gives birth to five children . </P> <P> Frog A hired worker, former town drunk . Bonzo and he began working for Tobias for their first successful mission . Frog is seen as almost a brother to Tobias and he is always a help . He dies from being impaled by the same bull that killed Glenda, and is buried next to Tobias and Emma . As he lies dying, he asks Zech if his gravestone can read "Frog MacIvey" and Zech agrees, claiming he would have done that anyway . </P>

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