Oliver's mother's first name is revealed to be Eunice.
Adjusted for inflation, the $100 Mr. Haney asks Mr. Douglas to pay for the cow would equal approximately $960 in the year 2023.
The title is from a line in the poem 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley."
Lisa clears the kitchen table by gathering up the tablecloth at each corner and, with the dishes and cutlery still on it, making it into a bundle and tossing it all out the window.