Squire queries

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	Henry Kingman
>
>Can anyone remind me of Squire Haligast's first name?

Now, see, wouldn't this be _just_ the sort of thing an online searchable
version of the text would be the cat's pajamas for?

Luckily for us, we've got Tim Ware's M&D Web Guide at
<bookmark>http://www.hyperarts.com/mason-dixon/masondixon-f.html</bookma
rk>,  where it sez the Squire makes two appearances, on pp. 366 and 435.

No first name is given in either of those places. 

My instinct is to say he doesn't need one: that "Haligast" is so
suggestive of "Holy Ghost," "heiliges," and variants thereon that a
first name would be gelding ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H gilding the lily.

It certainly adds texture to his appearances: 

On 366, he pops up long enough to crack a wonderfully stupid joke, "'Tis
a brumal Night, for behold, it sweepeth by," and disappear, but not
before the Rev observes, "the gnomic [!] Squire, on the rare occasions
he speaks, does so with an intensity suggesting, to more than one of the
Guests, either useful Prophecy or Bedlamite Entertainment."

And on p. 435, a few lines down from "QUERIES":

"'Boys, Boys,' rumbles the imminent Overseer [!] Barnes. 'We aren't
quizzing [!] with the Squire again [again?] are we, we know the
consequences of that well enough don't we by now?'"

"'They are Lads,' says the Squire. 'Having a dream together. No harm.'"

The hell does that signify? Look carefully at the punctuation of that
last line. "They are Lads. Having a dream together." NOT, you'll note,
"They are Lads having a dream together."

It reads for all the world like the Squire is contradicting Barnes:
They're not Boys, they're Lads. Whaaa?

Or is this just another case of the Bedlamite Squire being "gnomic"?

Harrison "Or trollic" Sherwood