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( 9 ) Q. What is the covering of a lodge ?

A. A cloudy canopy of divers colours, or the clouds.

Q. Is there any furniture in a lodge ?

A. Yes.

Q. What is it ?

A. Moſaic pavements, blazing ſtar, and indented tarſal.

Q. What are they ?

A. Moſaic pavement, the ground floor of the lodge ; blazing ſtar, the center ; and indented tarſal, the border around it.

Q. What is the other furniture in a lodge ?

A. A Bible, compaſs and ſquare.

Q. Who do they properly belong to ?

A. The Bible to God, the compaſs to the maſter, and ſquare to the fellow-craft.

Q. Have you any jewels in the lodge ?

A. Yes.

Q. How many.

A. Six : 3 moveable, and 3 immoveable.

Q. What are the moveable jewels ?

A The ſquare, level and plumb-rule.

Q. What are their uſes ?

A. A ſquare, to lay down true and right lines ; a level, to try all horizontals ; and, the plumb-rule, to try all uprights.

Q. What are the immoveable jewels ?

A. The trazel-board, rough-aſhler and broached thurnal.

Q. What are their uſes ?

A. A trazel-board, for the maſter, to draw his deſigns upon ; rough-aſhler, for the fellow-craft, to try their jewels upon ; and, the broached thurnal, for the entered 'prentice, to learn to work upon.