thumb on the joint of the second finger, where it joins the hand, and crooking your thumb so that each can stick the nail of his thumb into the joint of the other.  This is the real grip of a Fellow Craft Mason; the name of it is Jachin; it is given in the following manner:  If you wish to examine a person, after having taken each other by the grip, ask him, “What is this?” A.  “A grip.”  Q.  “A grip of what?” A.  “The grip of a Fellow Craft Mason.”  Q.  “Has it a name?” A.  “It has.”  Q.  “Will you give it to me?” A.  “I did not so receive it, neither can I so impart it.”  Q.  “What will you do with it?” A.  “I’ll letter it or halve it.”  Q.  “Halve it, and you begin.”  A.  “No; begin you.”  Q.  “You begin.”  A.  “Ja.”  Q.  “Chin.”  A.  “Jachin.”  Q.  “Right, Brother Jachin, I greet you.”

After the Master gives the candidate the pass-grip and grip, and their names, he says, “Brother, you will rise and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as such, and convince them that you have been regularly passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason, and have got the sign and pass-grip, real grip, and their names.” [I do not here express it as expressed in Lodges generally; the Master usually says you will rise and salute the Wardens, &c., and convince them, &c., that you have got the sign, pass-grip, and word.  It is obviously wrong, because the first thing he gives is the sign, then the due-guard, then the pass-grip, and their names.] While the Wardens are examining the candidate, the Master gets an apron, and returns to the candidate, and says, “Brother, I now have the honor of presenting you with a lamb-skin, or white apron, as before, which I hope you will continue to wear, with honor to yourself, and satisfaction to the brethren; you will please carry it to the Senior Warden in the West, who will teach you how to wear it as a Fellow Craft Mason.”  The Senior Warden ties on his apron, and turns up one corner of the lower end of the apron, and tucks it under the apron string.  The Senior Deacon then conducts his pupil to the Master, who has by this time resumed his seat in the East, where he has, or ought to have, the floor carpet to assist him in his explanations.  Master to the candidate, “Brother, as you are dressed, it is necessary you should have tools to work with; I will, therefore, present you with the tools of a Fellow Craft Mason.  They are the Plumb, Square, and Level.  The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative masons to raise perpendiculars; the Square, to square their work; and the Level, to lay horizontals; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to use them for more noble and glorious purposes; the Plumb teaches us to walk uprightly, in our several stations, before God and man; squaring our actions by the square of virtue; and remembering that we are traveling on the level of time to that ’undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler has returned.’  I further present you with three precious jewels; their