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Article MASONIC REMINISCENCES. ← Page 7 of 7 Article THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS. Page 1 of 5 →
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Masonic Reminiscences.
of high excitement , and when asked by that gentleman "if he had been at Elysium ? shouted No , sir , I've been at , pandemonium , and have been suffering the tortures of the -. " Mr . Simpson said he had heard a great deal about all the fine things ¦ which ornamented Mr . Johnson ' s chief rooms . " I tell you what , sir , " said the Colonel , " the whole house is the most
outrageous heterogeneous jumble I ever saw in my life—a small museum in a stale of insurrection , nothing in its right place , here you try to steer between and Indian Pagoda ancl a Chinese Mandarin , and stumble over something like an Egyptian mummy , knocking over the model of a three decker in glass , fully rigged , or getting all at once immersed in the depths of Entomology , by tumbling into a case of preserved spiders , or some other abomination of the sort , lucky if you escape with a few flesh wounds , I ' m sure
the fellow is an infernal conjuror or Avizard of some kind , for the whole carpet seemed crawling witli what seemed to me , in the comparative darkness , to be young crocodiles . Fancy two malignant curs all the time I was there kept piercing my ears with the most sharp and discordant yells , and my body with their teeth wherever they could reach it . Altogether , the place looked for all the Avorld like what you might fancy to be a sort of
hospital for sick and Avounded upholstery . The sofa looked in a state of Anascarca-, portions of its tumid fio-ure peeping out here and there through a sort of Avhite reticulated covering , the easy chairs looked like obese nurses , holding within their arms IAVO fat babies in a state of repose , covered over with the same eternal white veil , the piano ( not the screamer ) had its legs bandaged up like a broken kneed
hunter , the pier and chimney glasses seemed all afflicted with the jaundice , closely enveloped in a vile gauze covering of gaudy yellow , stirring up unpleasant memories of bile , and burning suns .
" I feel so ill , and such strong symptoms of an attack of gout , that I must leave this evening , I shall return as soon as possible , and , somewhat better prepared , pay another visit to your friends , Avhen I hope to save gentle Sappho the trouble of ending her days in a ' lover ' s leap , ' unless my hand shake more than usual . " ( To tie continued . )
The New Constitutions Of The French Masons.
THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS .
THE relation between England and France at the present moment are such as should foster sentiments of the sincerest fraternity between us . The IAVO countries are linked together by every tie which can unite nations to each other ; they have common dangers , common difficulties , common losses , and common aspirations in the present ; and , Ave do trust , that ;> common triumph and a common glory aAvaits them in a-not far distant future . There is happily , however , not . the slightest need for such ad-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Reminiscences.
of high excitement , and when asked by that gentleman "if he had been at Elysium ? shouted No , sir , I've been at , pandemonium , and have been suffering the tortures of the -. " Mr . Simpson said he had heard a great deal about all the fine things ¦ which ornamented Mr . Johnson ' s chief rooms . " I tell you what , sir , " said the Colonel , " the whole house is the most
outrageous heterogeneous jumble I ever saw in my life—a small museum in a stale of insurrection , nothing in its right place , here you try to steer between and Indian Pagoda ancl a Chinese Mandarin , and stumble over something like an Egyptian mummy , knocking over the model of a three decker in glass , fully rigged , or getting all at once immersed in the depths of Entomology , by tumbling into a case of preserved spiders , or some other abomination of the sort , lucky if you escape with a few flesh wounds , I ' m sure
the fellow is an infernal conjuror or Avizard of some kind , for the whole carpet seemed crawling witli what seemed to me , in the comparative darkness , to be young crocodiles . Fancy two malignant curs all the time I was there kept piercing my ears with the most sharp and discordant yells , and my body with their teeth wherever they could reach it . Altogether , the place looked for all the Avorld like what you might fancy to be a sort of
hospital for sick and Avounded upholstery . The sofa looked in a state of Anascarca-, portions of its tumid fio-ure peeping out here and there through a sort of Avhite reticulated covering , the easy chairs looked like obese nurses , holding within their arms IAVO fat babies in a state of repose , covered over with the same eternal white veil , the piano ( not the screamer ) had its legs bandaged up like a broken kneed
hunter , the pier and chimney glasses seemed all afflicted with the jaundice , closely enveloped in a vile gauze covering of gaudy yellow , stirring up unpleasant memories of bile , and burning suns .
" I feel so ill , and such strong symptoms of an attack of gout , that I must leave this evening , I shall return as soon as possible , and , somewhat better prepared , pay another visit to your friends , Avhen I hope to save gentle Sappho the trouble of ending her days in a ' lover ' s leap , ' unless my hand shake more than usual . " ( To tie continued . )
The New Constitutions Of The French Masons.
THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS .
THE relation between England and France at the present moment are such as should foster sentiments of the sincerest fraternity between us . The IAVO countries are linked together by every tie which can unite nations to each other ; they have common dangers , common difficulties , common losses , and common aspirations in the present ; and , Ave do trust , that ;> common triumph and a common glory aAvaits them in a-not far distant future . There is happily , however , not . the slightest need for such ad-