The Boys' School.

we nave pledged ourselves to assist in their hour of need , and for whose support and education pay more than many of us clo for our own children . Have the House Committee power to take such Steps unless something more than boyish folly is committed ? I hope the report may prove unfounded , for after the trouble and of getting a boy

expense elected , for him to be expelled , disgraced , cast upon the world friendless and homeless , will make many brothers pause before subscribing at our approaching festival , unless such reports are totally refuted . I do not remember any minute of expulsion at our last quarterly court .

Hoping your' excellent Masonic organ will give forth such sounds as may help to protect the orphan , serve the Institution , and not condemn our managing brothers unheard , Believe me , i Yours faithfully and fraternally ,

CORNER STONE . [ We have received our correspondent ' s letter just before going to press , and have , therefore , not ' had time to make the necessary inquiries to ascertain the correctness , or otherwise , of a report which has not come to our ears . We cannot but think and hope that our correspondent is misinformed . —ED . P . M . ]

"Mr, Brown At The Girls' School Festival.

" MR , BROWN AT THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL .

We extract the following humourous letter from our contemporary , the Indian Journal of Freemasonry .

" TO THE EDITOIi 01 " TITE IXJVX JFRXEH OF FHEE 3 TAS 0 A * Iir . " SUE AND BROTHER , —I see as you put my account of my inishiashun into Preemasonry into your paper and so I think about sending you something more which I think it may be instructive and amusing to your readers . Well snr , after I were inishiated , I went through the serremony of being passedand

, then I were raised and the more I see of Preemasonry the better I like it especially when I see with my own blessed eyes what a deal of good it is a doing of in every part of the world .

" Well one day Mr . Arthur Scetches he sees my wife and he ses to her ses he why Mrs . Broivn your jest the pusson I want to see your A'ery good ses Mrs . B . what can I do for you why ses he jest give this ticket to Mr . B . with my complements and say I ope you'll both go . Well , Mrs . B . brings the ticket ome

and we finds its for the seventy-eighth anniversary festival of the Royal Preemasons school for female girls at Preemasons Hall on the 9 th of May . So Mrs . B . she begins to prepare for the occasion for we see such a lot of names of big-ivigs all a going to be there that we thought we must come out according

and I wonder ses Mrs . B . if all them gents is going to bring their wives leastwise their ladies witli them . In course they will ses I . Well Mrs . B ., she gets a new green silk dress , ancl gose to the airclressers to have her head put proper , ancl I gets a new blue tie , and a black satting westkit with beautiful flowers

worked all over it and we sets off quite spicey in a cab . Well when we gets there Mrs . B . ivas put out to find that she warn * to have no dinner hut that the ladies was to have to sit up in a gallery ancl look on and she gave a bit of her mind to a gent with white hids and a wand like what the cloves as in lodge ancl

she told him it were a shame to treat the fair sects like that and she said she'd go ome . But the gent and me talked her over , and at larst she sent me to an am and beef shop for some sandwiches , and as she had . her sperrit bottle in her pocket , she said shed manage through the evening . So I gose in and . finds every body very sivil anddelihted to see you Mr . B . ses

, g oue and glad to make your akwanttance ses Bro . Havers and hows your excellent wife ses the erl of Dalhouzy . And byme hy all begins to move , and one of my friends of the Mennerva Lodge he gets me a good seat , and when grace was sed , at it we gose . Well I never did see such a dinnerthere was turkey

, soup and all kinds' of fish and turtle and am and puddens and all which is two numeris to mention and then there was all sorts of wine , ancl something , I think they called Mary's chain o , and one gentlemen told the waiter to bring me some in a mug , and he only brought a tiny glass , and they all larfed , and

only I was afraid of making some mistake , I should a liked a little more . "Well , byme by the waiters they wisks off the cloth , and then they puts on fresh wine , and sweets and fruits quite wonderful . " Ancl then there was speeches and songs , ancl such singingI a bin to the Canterberryand to Weston's

, , and to the Oxford , but in all my born days I never heerd anything like the song Madam Parapit sung about the nitingale and then it was ancor and she sung two o ' clock in the mornin and didnt Mrs . B . keep a noddin at me in the gallery while she sung that not that I'm a 2 o ' clock man not by no meens .

Well byme hy up comes two stewards a leading two little gal up to the piano , and there they sat with their legs a dangling from the music stools looking pretty flurried , but the stewards talked kind like to them , and then they began to play , and then in ivalks the stewards , ancl tivo nice kind looking ladies , as they sed was the scboolmississes and all the Masons

daughters from the school two and two , a looking appy and ealthy and clean ancl dressed like little laches . Ancl they walked round the hall , ancl then they stood before the dias ancl sung such a nice hymn , wrote out a purpose by one of the little girls all out of her own hedd , ancl she and another little gal played the [ piano while the others sung . And it made me

feel quite queer about the throat , and when I looked up at Mrs . B . I see her and lots of the ladies using their pocket hankerchers . I dare say they thought which Mrs . B . says she did about their own little girls , ancl hoped they might never be worse off than the orphans they had come to see . Well then the

Erl of Dalhouzy he made a speech and gave the little gal as wrote the hymn a medal for good conduct , and a puss ivith 5 suvreins iu it and then there was more speeches , and then the secretary read the lists , and every body chaired , ivhich it ivas between 3 and 4 , 000 pounds was give , ancl Mrs . B . says we must become

aniwal subscribers . And I looks up to Mrs . B . ancl winks and makes sines as its time for us to go home , and after lots of trouble I gets my at , and fetches Mrs . B ., ancl Ave sets off to walk ome , when Mrs . B ses lor I feel very queer , I wish I'd kept to my sperrit bottle instead of that fizzy stuff shampain I think they call it as gose clown like milk ivhich its my belief its gcttin into my head , aud so I takes a cab , and Mrs . B . she fell fast [ asleep before we got - _ -