March 20, 1799, I am hugely pleased with your "Spider," "your old freemason," as you call him.

A Freemason doffs his hat and shouts, "Vive la Paix!

A patriarchal Freemason, wearing his collar and badges, has arrived in a carriage; they help him to alight with marks of the greatest respect.

In the meantime Citizen Beslay is embracing the nearest Freemason, while another begs the honour of being the first to plant his banner, the Persévérance, which was unfurled in 1790, on the ramparts.

I returned home in a most perplexed state of mind, from which I could not arouse myself until the arrival, towards evening, of a friend, a freemason, and consequently well informed.

Not a single freemason was wounded on the way, though shells fell on their passage from time to time.

The fellows were clumsy, and the noose would not work; so that the Mexican doctor, who meant to dissect me, brought me round again; and being a freemason, as I am, stood by me,got me safe off, and cheated the devil.

A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country, that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.

One night, as I lay sleepless in a dark but double-bedded room, an old gentlemana disbanded officer, I think, whose health disturbed his reposebegan a conversation of a peculiar kind, and asked me whether I was not a Freemason.

He was a Freemason, and served as master of his lodge.

She wore the white cap with distinction, and when an apron was suspended round her immense waist it ceased to be an apron, and became a symbol, like the apron of a Freemason.

At the meeting in the metropolis, which was held at Freemason's Hall, and at which the Earl of Stanhope presided, the following resolutions were passed: "'1.

As there was once a female Freemason, so there was once a female baronetDame Maria Bolles, of Osberton, in the County of Nottingham.

And, 3. Therefore to every Freemason who rightly comprehends his art, this construction of a living temple is his labor.

For this, and this alone, does a man become a Freemason.

And so must the Freemason labor.

God is, to the Freemason, Al Gabil, as the Arabians called him, that is, The Builder; or, as expressed in his masonic title, the Grand Architect of the Universe, by common consent abbreviated in the formula G.A.O.T.U.

One who has not been initiated as a Freemason.

" [201] "Der Arbeiter," says Lenning, "ist der symbolische Name eines Freimaurers"the Workman is the symbolic name of a Freemason.

But if no Past Grand or Past Deputy Grand Master should be present, then the Senior Grand Warden was to fill the chair, and, in his absence, the Junior Grand Warden, and lastly, in absence of both these, then the oldest Freemason who is the present Master of a lodge.

Dalcho lays down the rule, that "no Freemason chosen into any office can refuse to serve (unless he has before filled the same office), without incurring the penalties established by the bye-laws."

That no person hereafter who shall be accepted a Freemason, shall be admitted into any lodge or assembly, until he has brought a certificate of the time and place of his acceptation, from the lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that limit or division where such a lodge is kept."

May no freemason desire plenty but with the benevolent view to relieve the indigent.

May no freemason wish for more liberty than constitutes happiness, nor more freedom than tends to the public good.

May the cares which haunt the heart of the covetous be unknown to the freemason.