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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
$ 3 " We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is . Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination . It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all
communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all German and other foreign words may be most legibly written . We are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of popular events in English Freemasonry , to be favoured by any Masonic papers ; more especially as relating to York aud Athol Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonner , and others . His own escapade is complete .
SCr . —The Minerva Lodge , 311 , has issued a circular , warning the Craft against its delinquent Master , who has absconded with the collection for the provincial festival . SATANUS IPSE . —We are at a loss as to whom this sobriquet applies , and our inquiries are unsuccessful . The honour would . seem to be divided between three members of the triple kingdoms , who in their respective Grand Lodges appear to riv . il each other in their fantastic tricks .
Bro . G . WATSON . —We are requested by Dr . Crucefix to express his regret at not having met his much respected friend . Tiro . AARONS . —We have received ( per Dr . Crucefix ) the letter complaining of typograplr . cal errors , but a careful review of the MSS . dues not prove their existence . Bro . A . also complains that many words fire , ( left out ; " we can only assure him that had not a few words been ' * put in , " the paper would have been more mystical but less euphonical ( to use his own expression ) . We have no objection to observe as an erratum , that the word "nutriments , " in relation to " corn , wine , and oil , " Bro . A . wishes should be read as " instruments . "
THE SKCttBTAnv ' s TOAST . —( A new version . )—What is it ? The mischevous fellow . Who is he ? The Editor of the F . Q- R . What ' s his name ? A word in your lug . " I ' m in a fix . " Guess again ? White ' s bait , what ' s that ? The purple . —Catch , " Hurrah for the purple . " Finale , " What mortals can more—the ladies adore . " ( qu . widows ) . CLERIOUS . —The Brother's address is , " the Rev . Joseph Wolff , D . D ., vicar of Isle Brewers near Langport , Somerset . " CHEOPS will have it tbat on the 3 rd of March 10-17 , the great majority was mainly , if not entirely , owing to the swarm of Sumatrans who rushed in by the " invisible " train . They
did not receive their chieftain's mandate'till six o ' clock , and "hey , presto , " they were not only in good time , but carried him and all before them . We acknowledge to having heard something like the buzzing of insects , little dreaming it was caused by the presence of the " good people . " Be it as it may , tlie G . M . pro tem . acted passing well , and this from us is no small praise . FHAT . BR IMEDICUS . —The saying is "dog should not eat dog , "—and the hapless wight gains no enviable notoriety by his godless attack on the widow . Yet strange to say , fie has been instrumental in giving the C—A—B— A— L the hardest blow . Still the snake is but scotched , not killed .
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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
$ 3 " We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is . Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination . It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all
communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all German and other foreign words may be most legibly written . We are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of popular events in English Freemasonry , to be favoured by any Masonic papers ; more especially as relating to York aud Athol Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonner , and others . His own escapade is complete .
SCr . —The Minerva Lodge , 311 , has issued a circular , warning the Craft against its delinquent Master , who has absconded with the collection for the provincial festival . SATANUS IPSE . —We are at a loss as to whom this sobriquet applies , and our inquiries are unsuccessful . The honour would . seem to be divided between three members of the triple kingdoms , who in their respective Grand Lodges appear to riv . il each other in their fantastic tricks .
Bro . G . WATSON . —We are requested by Dr . Crucefix to express his regret at not having met his much respected friend . Tiro . AARONS . —We have received ( per Dr . Crucefix ) the letter complaining of typograplr . cal errors , but a careful review of the MSS . dues not prove their existence . Bro . A . also complains that many words fire , ( left out ; " we can only assure him that had not a few words been ' * put in , " the paper would have been more mystical but less euphonical ( to use his own expression ) . We have no objection to observe as an erratum , that the word "nutriments , " in relation to " corn , wine , and oil , " Bro . A . wishes should be read as " instruments . "
THE SKCttBTAnv ' s TOAST . —( A new version . )—What is it ? The mischevous fellow . Who is he ? The Editor of the F . Q- R . What ' s his name ? A word in your lug . " I ' m in a fix . " Guess again ? White ' s bait , what ' s that ? The purple . —Catch , " Hurrah for the purple . " Finale , " What mortals can more—the ladies adore . " ( qu . widows ) . CLERIOUS . —The Brother's address is , " the Rev . Joseph Wolff , D . D ., vicar of Isle Brewers near Langport , Somerset . " CHEOPS will have it tbat on the 3 rd of March 10-17 , the great majority was mainly , if not entirely , owing to the swarm of Sumatrans who rushed in by the " invisible " train . They
did not receive their chieftain's mandate'till six o ' clock , and "hey , presto , " they were not only in good time , but carried him and all before them . We acknowledge to having heard something like the buzzing of insects , little dreaming it was caused by the presence of the " good people . " Be it as it may , tlie G . M . pro tem . acted passing well , and this from us is no small praise . FHAT . BR IMEDICUS . —The saying is "dog should not eat dog , "—and the hapless wight gains no enviable notoriety by his godless attack on the widow . Yet strange to say , fie has been instrumental in giving the C—A—B— A— L the hardest blow . Still the snake is but scotched , not killed .