MD3PAD 352-354

[Toby G Levy]

        Wicks tells his audience that the historical Hamlet did not die
but went on to marry two wives.

        Uncle Lomax opens up a bottle of peach brandy and offers some to
Wicks. Wicks tastes it and realizes it is from Ocarara Creek, where he
met Mason and Dixon in the winter of 1764-1765 after not seeing them for
four years.

        Wicks had come to America to be a Minister at a Susquehanna
parish, but the reaction to the Stamp Act was causing all the settlers
to be anti-British and Wicks did not feel welcome.

        Wicks rides on a coach to Philadelphia with a Mr. Edgewise, who
manages to beat Wicks in a gambling game called All-Fours and takes
Wicks' IOU under the disapproving eyes of Mrs. Edgewise.

        Wicks tries to explain why the inside the coach is much larger
than it appears from the outside, but his audience begs him to go on
with the story.

        The coach stops late at night to pick up two women, mother and
daughter, whose luminous faces haunt Wicks.

Toby