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Q.-And all the men in your house are ricksha coolies ?
A. I am the only ricksha coolie living there.
Q.-Are there no chair coolies in the house?
A.-No.
Q. What are they then?
A.-Market and street coolies.
Q.--Do you know what chair coolies make?
A.—I know nothing about them.
Q-Is there any ricksha coolie guild?
A.-No.
The Chairman.-Is there any Swatow coolie or Chu-chau coolie guild?
A.-No.
Q.-Don't you subscribe to any guild?
A.-No. I am alone. I don't care for others' business.
Mr. Badeley. How long do you say you have been here ?
A.-A little more than two years.
Q.-Have you been a ricksha coolie all the time ?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you pay anything to anybody to get your licence ?
A. No.
Mr. Wilcox.-How did you come to be a ricksha coolie then ?
A.-My brother bought a ricksha for me.
Mr. Baleley. Is your ricksha your own then?
A. Yes.
Q. How many more have you got ?
A. Only the one.
Q. What is the number of it?
A. No. 502.
The Chairman.-When did you buy it?
A. Some time in the tenth moon of last
Q. What did you pay for it?
year.
A.-It cost me altogether seventy dollars.*
Mr. Wilcox. Had your brother got money before he came to Hongkong?
A.-No.
Q.-Did he borrow the money to buy you a ricksha?
A. Yes, he borrowed it.
[*Mr. Badeley made inquiries through the Police as to the statement of the above witness, Cheng A Fu, that he purchased his ricksha and paid seventy dollars for it. He learned that the seventy dollars was paid for the good will of the run- ning alone and that the ricksha does not belong to him.].