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Beatrice.
" We are talking about marriage , " I said . " Marriage , " replied Twamley , " well , that is enough to make any body look blue and be very serious . I don ' t so far know anything about it myself . I have great doubts about it , but if I do ever venture on that' perilous sea , ' it will be with a ' little , craft' of my own , ' all taut , ' as the sailors say . "
" Aha , Master Twamley , " I put in , " so yon , too , are thinking of the journey to ' Castle Dangerous , ' are you P " " I said not so , " was that ingenuous youth ' s reply , " and if you wish to hear what my views on this most important subject really are , I'll give them to yon confidentially this evening . " And so , kind readers , you must wait until the next chapter . ( To be continued . )
Curious Masonic Jewels.
CURIOUS MASONIC JEWELS .
WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN . IN my " Numerical and Numismatical Register of Lodges , " just published , I allude to a curious jewel sent me by our lamented Bro . Commander Scott , R . N . Since then the editor of the Masonic Magazine has seen it , and who , thinking it valuable , as I do , has had it engraved for his numerous readers to study for themselves .
OBVERSE . REVERSE . Its exact age is not known , but it is probably of the latter part of the last century . When it came into the possession of the father of Commander Scott , he had his name engraved thereon . From him it came to his son , ancl then to me . It is of silver , ancl weighs about three-quarters of an ounce . The engravings of the obverse and reverse are so accurate that I need not
describe either , one having reference to the Craft , and the other chiefly to the Kni ghts Templars' degree , which , some years ago , was frequently given under the wing of the Craft Charter , its presence being supposed to regularize any other Masonic meeting . There are many silver jewels preserved in various collections , some being
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Beatrice.
" We are talking about marriage , " I said . " Marriage , " replied Twamley , " well , that is enough to make any body look blue and be very serious . I don ' t so far know anything about it myself . I have great doubts about it , but if I do ever venture on that' perilous sea , ' it will be with a ' little , craft' of my own , ' all taut , ' as the sailors say . "
" Aha , Master Twamley , " I put in , " so yon , too , are thinking of the journey to ' Castle Dangerous , ' are you P " " I said not so , " was that ingenuous youth ' s reply , " and if you wish to hear what my views on this most important subject really are , I'll give them to yon confidentially this evening . " And so , kind readers , you must wait until the next chapter . ( To be continued . )
Curious Masonic Jewels.
CURIOUS MASONIC JEWELS .
WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN . IN my " Numerical and Numismatical Register of Lodges , " just published , I allude to a curious jewel sent me by our lamented Bro . Commander Scott , R . N . Since then the editor of the Masonic Magazine has seen it , and who , thinking it valuable , as I do , has had it engraved for his numerous readers to study for themselves .
OBVERSE . REVERSE . Its exact age is not known , but it is probably of the latter part of the last century . When it came into the possession of the father of Commander Scott , he had his name engraved thereon . From him it came to his son , ancl then to me . It is of silver , ancl weighs about three-quarters of an ounce . The engravings of the obverse and reverse are so accurate that I need not
describe either , one having reference to the Craft , and the other chiefly to the Kni ghts Templars' degree , which , some years ago , was frequently given under the wing of the Craft Charter , its presence being supposed to regularize any other Masonic meeting . There are many silver jewels preserved in various collections , some being