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S.W. I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.

W.M. What makes you a Mason?

S.W. My obligation.

W.M. How do you know yourself to be a Mason?

S.W. By having been often tried and never denied and am willing to be tried

again.

W.M. How shall I know you to be a Mason?

S.W. By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance.

W.M. What are signs?

S.W. Right angles, horizontals and perpendiculars.

W.M. What is a token?

S.W. A certain friendly and brotherly grip whereby one Mason may know
another in the dark as well as the light.

W.M. Give me a sign. (Gives sign.)

W.M. Has that an allusion?

S.W. It has; to the penalty of my obligation.

W.M. (Taking S.W. by right hand as in ordinary hand shaking.)
Give me a token? I hail.

S.W. I conceal.

W.M. What do you conceal?

S.W. All the secrets of Masons in Masonry to which this token alludes.
(At the word "token" the grip performed.)

S.W. I conceal.