Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

Master Overseer--Brother Junior Overseer, dial you suffer this work to pass your
inspection?
Junior Overseer--I did; I observed to the young craftsman, at the time, that the stone was
not such as we had orders to receive; but, owing to its singular form and beauty, I felt
unwilling to reject it, and suffered it to pass to the Senior Overseer at the west gate.
Senior Overseer--I made the same observations to the young craftsman, and for the same
reason permitted it to pass to the Master Overseer at the east gate.
R. W. M.--Why, you see the stone is neither oblong nor square, neither has it the mark of
any of the craft upon it. Do you know this mark that is upon it?
Junior Overseer--I do not.
Senior Overseer--Neither do I.
Master Overseer--What shall I do with it?
Junior Overseer--I propose we heave it over among the rubbish. 1
Master Overseer--Agreed.
The Master and Senior Overseers take up the keystone, and swinging it four times back
and forth between them, the fourth time the Junior Overseer catches it over the left
shoulder of the Master Overseer (in imitation of the sign of "heave-over," see Fig. 19),
and throws it aside. At this moment all the brethren begin to shuffle around the room,
leaving their seats.
R. W. M. (giving one rap with his gavel.)--What is the cause of this disturbance among
the workmen?
S. G. W.--It is the sixth hour of the sixth day of the week, and the craft are impatient to
receive their wages.
The whole Lodge here rise to their feet and sing the following:
"Another six days' work is done,
Another Sabbath has begun;
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the hours thy God hath blest."
R. W. M.--Brother Senior Grand Warden, it is my order that