No. 1 signifies Consumptive.
" 2 " Rheumatical.
" 3 " Gout.
" 4 " Dropsical.
" 5 " Hypochondriacal.
" 6 " Scrofulous.
" 7 " Stoppage in Speech, or Stuttering.
" 8 " Pox-marked, or Hair-lipped.
" 9 " Loss of an eye, tooth, or limb--a bald
head, or any noted scar exposed. This number will require close
inspection, in order to avoid being deceived; as the mechanical
construction of wigs, glass eyes, false teeth, wooden legs, false
whiskers, &c., has been brought to such perfection, that, without the
very closest scrutiny, they will, many times, escape our observation,
and pass as the real members created by the God of Nature.

Sixth: GAUGH--a flash word, signifying AGE AND MANNER OF SPEECH--is
described as follows:

No. 1 denotes the person to be 70.
" 2 " " from 50 to 60.
" 3 " " " 40 to 55.
" 4 " " " 30 to 40.
" 5 " " " 21 to 30.
No. 6 denotes the person to be Very Gray.
" 7 " " Dappled.
" 8 " " Quick Spoken.
" 9 " " Slow and Indistinct.

These private Qualities are not to be explained to any but Grand
Masters; and when a Brother becomes familiar with these private
dualities, he can correspond with other Masters, without any fear of
detection, as all of the Qualities, though apparently simple, are
impossible for any one to understand, unless he has the key; and he who
shall DARE to instruct another in this mystery, unless entitled to it by
the law of our constitution, will find it would have been better for him
had a mill-stone been tied about his neck, and he been cast in the bosom
of the deepest sea.

[The table of "flash" words contained in article sixth, section second,
are words used among the fraternity in general, and by the common
members believed to be the only secret language of the order. In this
they have been kept wholly ignorant, by the cunning of their leaders. We
have but little doubt in our mind that there may have been a great many
words added to the original vocabulary, since the adoption of the
constitution, as we find among the gamblers, and other dishonest men,
language entirely incomprehensible to all without a key. The gambler,
though not anywise connected, stands in his profession ready to
conciliate them in their works of death, under the horrible idea th