MD3PAD 457-459

[Toby G Levy]

        Nathaniel McClean is pestered by Spit, who is trying to set up
a "Pass-Bank" which I suppose is a place for the crew to keep their
money.  Nathe wants no part of the enterprise.  A short flashback shows
how Nathe's father Archibald, another member of the crew convinced Mason
and Dixon to give the boy a summer job, to get him out of his imaginary
world of books. Dixon makes the provocative comment that "Books aren't
going to hurt him...Once he's found out about them, 'tis too late in any
case." I wonder what that's supposed to imply about books.

        In camp Nathe is usually too tired to read, but occasionally
dips into The Ghastly Fop.  He writes to a friend about the temptations
he is faced with in camp.

Toby