The Bumptious Brother.

The Bumptious Brother. [No. 68]

They blunder’d badly who could introduce
Your Bumptious “Brother” to a Mason’s Lodge,
Whate’er his social station: honest Hodge,
Who tends his swine and cattle, far more use
And ornament had been. He never had 5
More preparation for Freemasonry
Than that the Tyler gave him; nor will he
Be aught but a mere Stumbling-block. How sad
To see such weak-brain’d but conceited thing—
Whose hear is wrapt in Selfishness—sit down 10
In a tyled Lodge, or standing up to frown
On better Brothers! It can only bring
Disgrace and trouble on the Craft, to have
In any Lodge either a Fool or Knave.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887