MDDM Ch. 29 "Join, or Die"

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    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s1.html

Click on: "First American Symbol Was Pre-revolutionary in Origin"
To see America's First Political Cartoon. Notice the number of 
segments in the decapitated snake.

I don't think we know, exactly, how many fops there were in Dr.
Franklin's 'conga line' into "the Night's Main Drama," but we know
that he wanted as many as possible:

"Line of Fops, how many have we now,- dear me, not enough, come,
one more, ever room for one more..."The final line is "a dozen or so
heedless Continentals." Eight become twelve? or, maybe a baker's
dozen would be more apt by the time of the real drama to come.

And we know that Mason, inspite of Franklin's beckoning, did not join,
at least not yet.