MD3PAD 637-639

[Toby G Levy]

        There is a large variety of esoteric sounding food at the barn
raising.

vw#127: Souse - Food steeped in pickle, especially pork trimmings.

vw#128: Schnitz und Knepp - Dried Apples, Dumplings and Ham (recipe at
http://www.berksweb.com/pam/schnitz.html)

        Armand shows up with a pudding and Luise finally gets to
introduce Armand to Peter.  Peter is very big and Armand is small.
Armand is afraid Peter will start a fight but Peter only wants to ask
about the duck.  Armand says he seldom sees the duck any more. Peter
speculates that time no longer matters to the duck and Luise ponders the
implications of this.

        At the end of the chapter concerning the marriage of Tom Hynes
about 50 pages back, Captain Shelby says that Tom will develop into a
"Grandfather Cresap."  Now, in Cumberland, on July 7th, as their
instruments arrive and the camp comes alive with activity, Mason and
Dixon meet the legendary curmudgeon Thomas Cresap,  who staved off an
arrest for murder even as the sheriff burnt his house down around him.

        Cresap displays his speed and accuracy with firearms by shooting
at a loaded whiskey jug hurled in the air. He hits it and it bursts into
flames. Cresap begins to tell Mason and Dixon the tale of his attempted
arrest by Sherif Samuel Smith. Mason and Dixon had heard Smith tell his
side of the story a couple of years ago.

Toby