“The Old Tyler”, written by Carl H. Claudy, first appeared in print in August, 1921 when the first of four hundred and fourteen “Old Tyler Talks” were printed in the Fellowship Forum, a fraternal newspaper published in Washington, D.C.  In 1925 the publisher asked the author to select a few of the best of the talks and thirty-one were accordingly made into a little volume. Thanks to the beauty of the internet, the Old Tyler sits again outside the lodge door.

A Lodge Is Born He Found Out On Investigating a Petitioner
A Masonic Speech HEP! HEP! On Knowing Names
Acting As Chaplain His Christmas On Secrets
Advertising In Men Hearts Outside Activities
Anonymous Indictment PEP
Atheist And Agnostic Inner Meaning Poor Fish
Beautiful Adventure Inviolable Promotion
Bluff Joke Shooting the Masonic Gun
Book Upon The Altar Judge Not So Many Rascals
Burdens Keepers of the Door Subscriptions
Costumes? Kinds of Masons Substitutes At Funerals
Could Be Laughter Supreme Being
Country Lodge Learning the Work The Dirty Trick
Democracy On Lodge Masonic Talk The Dislike Petitioner
Discounts Masonry’s Failure The Forgotten Word
Examining Committee Masonry in Business The Greatest Work
Eyes Lifted High Meanest Master The Hallowed Old
Foolish Questions Mirror Lodge Those Disclosures
Foolish Spending Music To Wait How Long?
Gambols on the Green New Cut Trails Two Faced!
Geometric Bull Odd Wages
Gift of the Magi On A Lodge Budget What Is Masonry?
Gold and Iron On Being Asked To Join Why Men Love Freemasonry
Hand-Picked On Finding Out