MD3PAD 391-393

[Toby G Levy]

        Chapter 39 begins on page 391 with Mason and Dixon hoping their
stay in the inn will be ended the next day by a break in the weather.

vw#88: Mephitic - poisonous or foul-smelling.

        Once again Dixon is telling Mason that he must get over his
wife's death and seek another. Mason says he is still mourning.

        Mason observes that Dixon is getting fat on the cooking of a
pastry chef named Maureen.

vw#89: Prolate - Having the polar axis longer than the equatorial
diameter.

vw#90: Oblate -  Having an equatorial diameter greater than the distance
between poles; compressed along or flattened at the poles.

        They finally escape the inn and after returning to the Harland's
farm, they resolve in the future to travel separately. They flip a coin
and Mason goes north while Dixon heads south.

        Wicks says there are no records to show where Dixon went, so he
is going to assume he went to Annapolis. There is some objection to this
by his audience, but Wicks stands firm.

Toby