Albany [GA] Patriot , June 14, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
The following have been almost unanimously adopted by the “craft,” and are expected tobe observed:
1. Enter softly.
2. Sit down quietly.
3. Subscribe for the paper.
4. Don’t touch the poker.
5. Say nothing interesting.
6. Engage in no controversy.
7. Don’t smoke.
8. Don’t whistle.
9. Don’t talk to the printers.
10. Hands off the papers.
11. Eyes off the manuscript.
12. Eyes off the matter.
13. Drunken men are requested to keep as far from the office as possible.
Gentlemen observing these rules when entering a printing office, will greatly oblige the printers, and need not fear the *Devil*.
The ladies, who sometimes bless us with their presence for a few minutes, are not expected to keep the rules very strictly, and indeed it would be agreeable to us to have them break the fifth and ninth rules as often as possible.
Boys unaccompanied by their fathers, are particularly requested to keep their hands in their pockets.