MD3PAD 406-408

[Toby G Levy]

        Once it is established that Mason is not a property owner, the
group on the rooftop try to tell Mason that he is not better than a
slave. Mason is not buying it.  He continues to work on fixing the
telescope.

        The group makes clear to Mason that the colonies are working
together to reject the laws of the King.

        Amy is impressed that Mason is famous and working directly for
the King. The rest of the group is not impressed because they believe
that Mason's line will not last long because in the near future all
boundaries will be removed.  Mason again is skeptical.

        They get Mason to drop the pretense that he is French.  He
admits he is from Stroud, and they assert that in Stroud he will have
encountered slavery.  Mason rejects this saying that the weavers in
Stroud don't compare to slaves in South Africa and America.

        They remind Mason of how the weavers were treated during the
Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. They are particularly hostile to the memory
of James Wolfe, who was involved in quashing their rebellion and who
later died in the battle of Quebec in 1959.

        Wicks writes in his day book of his wonderment that a government
would "send violent young troops against their own people."

        Mason parts on good terms with the revolutionary bunch.  They
accompany him to New Jersey as he starts back to Harland's farm.

        Travelling through New Jersey, Mason encounters a group of
Quakers emerging from a meeting and as he attempts to get his horse
around them his horse stumbles and Mason is laid up with a very sore
hip.  He leaves out of his notes the part about the Quakers and Wicks'
audience discuss the import of this decision.

Toby