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When the rice has been brought on table one says this quatrain 



"YYith a sincere heart and united mind — 

 It tastes well when eaten. 

 The brethern unanimously 

 And peaceably drink together. 



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SECTION VII. 



Secret signs on smoking tobacco ok opium. 



If you enter the house of a brother and he offers you the tobacco-pipe with botli his 

 hands, you ought to look how many fingers he holds on the pipe. If he holds two fiag- 

 ers of each hand to the pipe, you ought to take it with tJiree fingers; if he offers it 

 with Uree fingers, you ought to take it with two fingers. 



If he offers you the pipe with the palm of his hand downwards, you ought to take it 

 with your palm upwards; but if he offers it to you with the palm upwards , you ought 

 to take it with the palm downwards. 



If he offers you the pipe with one fmger thrust into the bowl of the tobacco-pipe, it is 

 a sign that there are strangers or policemen in the house. 



Il' the host says to you: Will you smoke? and he offers you the pipe with both hands, 

 take it also with two hands; if he offers it with one hand, take it also with one hand, 



If he offers you the pipe with the right hand, take it with the right hand; so you ought 

 to take also the pipe with the left hand, if he offers it to you with the left hand. 



If he offers you the pipe with two fingers of each hand, you ought to grasp with your 

 five fingers the bowl of the pipe and accept it; if he offers it to you with his five fingers 

 grasping the bowl, you ought to take it with two fingers of each hand, and say this 

 quatrain ; 



