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
Lodge.

Q. You being hoodwinked, how did you know it to be a door? A. By first
meeting with resistance, and afterwards gaining admission.

Q. How did you gain admission? A. By three distinct knocks from
without, answered by the same from within.

Q. What was said to you from within? A. Who comes there? Who comes
there? Who comes there?

Q. Your answer? A. A poor, blind candidate, who has long been desirous
of having and receiving a part of the rights and benefits of this
Worshipful Lodge, dedicated to God, and held forth to the Holy Order
of St. John, as all true fellows and brothers have done, who have gone
this way before me.

Q. What further was said to you from within? A. I was asked if it was
of my own free will and accord I made this request; if I was duly and
truly prepared, worthy and well qualified; all of which being answered
in the affirmative, I was asked by what further rights I expected to
obtain so great a favor or benefit.

Q. Your answer? A. By being a man, free-born, of lawful age, and well
recommended.

Q. What was then said to you? A. I was bid to wait till the Worshipful
Master in the East was made acquainted with my request and his answer
returned.

Q. After his answer was returned, what followed? A. I was caused to
enter the Lodge.

Q. How? A. On the point of some sharp instrument pr