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Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent

CHAPTER XIX
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CHAPTER XIX .-- An Orange Lodge at Full Work.
-- Solomon in all his Glory--He Defines Drinking to be a Religious Exercise--True Blue and the Equivocal--Phil's Eloquence--A Charter Toast.
From the same to the same.
"Friday, * * * "The order of business for each night of meeting is, I find, as follows:--1.

Lodge to open with prayer, members standing.2.

General rules read.3.Members proposed.4.

Reports from committee.5.Names of members called over.6.Members balloted for.7.Members made.8.

Lodge to close with prayer, members standing.
"It was about eight o'clock, when, accompanied by a young fellow named Graham, we reached the Lodge, which, in violation of one of its own rules, was held in what was formerly called the Topertoe Tavern, but which has since been changed to the Castle Cumber Arms--being a field _per pale_, on which is quartered a purse, and what seems to be an inverted utensil of lead, hammered into a coronet.


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