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A. By signs and Tokens, and Perfect Points of Entrance,

Q. What are signs?

A. All Squares, Angles and Perpendiculars.

Q. What are Tokens?

A. Certain regular and brotherly grips.

Ex. Give me the Points of your entrance.

Resp. Give the first, and I will give you the second.

Ex. I bail it.

Resp. I conceal it.

Ex. What do you conceal?

Resp. All secrets and secrecy of Masons and Masonry, unless to a true and lawful Brother, after due examination, or in a just and worshipful Lodge of Brothers and Fellows well met.

Q. Where was you made a Mason?

A. In a just and perfect Lodge.

Q. What makes a just and perfect Lodge?

A. Seven or more.

Q. What do they consist of?

A. One Master, two Fellow-crafts, and two Entered Prentices.

Q. What makes a lodge?

A. Five.

Q. What do they consist of?

A. One Master, two Wardens, one Fellow-craft and one Entered Prentice.

Q. Who brought you to the Lodge?

A. An Entered Prentice.

Q. How did he bring you?

A. Neither clothed nor naked, bare footed nor shod, deprived of all metal, and in a right moving posture.

Q. How got you admittance?

A. By three great knocks.