M. 0. — Bro. Overseers, I accept your explanations as

some excuse for what I previously regarded as a breach of Masonic duty, but the orders of our Grd. Master being peremptory to receive only such stones for the building of the Holy Temple as are either square or oblong, and marked and numbered by a regular Mark Master Mason. We have no option but to condemn and reject this stone as unavailable for the work, you will therefore order it to be ^'heaved over" among the rubbish! (Which is done by the Deacons in the proper manner. The Pedestals are removed and the Overseers resume their original seats. Brethren move about the Lodge.)
W. M. — Bro. Sen. Warden what is the cause of this confusion ?
S. W. — It is the sixth hour of the sixth day of the week, and I ^Dresume that the Craftsmen are impatient to receive their wages.
W. M. — -Bro. Deacons! you have my command to assemble the Craftsmen in procession to the office of the S. W. to receive their wages, and do you Bro. J. W. pro- ceed to discharge your special duty.
(The Brethren march round the Lodge chanting the