Q. What recommendations do you bring? A. Recommendations from the
Worshipful Master, Wardens, and brethren of that Right Worshipful
Lodge, who greet you.

Q. What comest thou hither to do? A. To learn to subdue my passions,
and improve myself in the secret arts and mysteries of Ancient
Freemasonry.

Q. You are a Mason, then, I presume? A. I am.

Q. How do you know that you are a Mason? A. By being often tried,
never denied, and willing to be tried again.

Q. How shall I know you to be a Mason? A. By certain signs, and a
token.

Q. What are signs? A. All right angles, horizontals and
perpendiculars.

Q. What is a token? A. A certain friendly and brotherly grip, whereby
one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light.

Q. Where were you first prepared to be a Mason? A. In my heart.

Q. Where secondly? A. In a room adjacent to the body of a just and
lawfully constituted Lodge of such.

Q. How were you prepared? A. By being divested of all metals, neither
naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable-tow
about my neck, in which situation I was conducted to the door of the