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LECTURE OF THE SECOND DEGREE.
W.M. Will you be off or from?
S.W. From.
W.M. From what to what?
S.W. From the degree of an Entered Apprentice to that of a Fellow
Craft.
W.M. Are you a Fellow Craft?
S.W. I am; try me.
W.M. How will you be tried?
S.W. By the square.
W.M. Why by the square?
S.W. Because it is an emblem of morality and one of the working tools
of a Fellow Craft.
W.M. What is a square?
S.W. An angle of ninety degrees, or the fourth part of a circle.
W.M. Where were you made a Fellow Craft?
S.W. In a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of Fellow Crafts.
W.M. How were you prepared?
S.W. By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed,
barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, and a cable-tow twice about my naked
right arm; in which situation I was conducted to the door of the Lodge
by a Brother.
W.M. Why had you a cable-tow twice about your naked right arm?
S.W. It was to signify that as a Fellow Craft I was under a double tie
to the fraternity.
W.M. How gained you admission?
S.W. By three distinct knocks.
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