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Q. How many?

A.-Over a hundred eggs the two times combined.

Q.-Well, what did you get for the eggs? You gave 100 eggs, which is a lot of money to a man who only sells eggs

?

A.-I did not get any profit for thein.

Q.--No, no, I mean to say what advantage did you get. What is the inan going to do for you, to help you, or something?

A. No advantage.

Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Why did you give the Inspectors over 100 eggs?

The Chairman.-Is he a friend of

A.-The Interpreter ?

yours ?

Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-No, and be the Interpreter came along.

A. He and the Interpreter came, and the Inspector told the Interpreter to tell me to take up eggs.

The Chairman.--Well, if I had come to your shop, and told you to send some eggs to my house, would you have sent me 100 eggs ?

A. Yes.

Q-Well, you can't make much profit at the end of the year, if you give away eggs to people who ask for them.

A.-But you see he is an Inspector, and the neighbourhood says you must give more or less to the Inspector to eat. If you dont, he will make trouble.

Q.-So the neighborhood say, if you dont give him plenty to cat, he will make trouble ? And you give him 100 eggs if he asks for thein?

A.-More than 100 eggs.

Q-Did he take them away with him, then?

A.--No, I told someone to take them to him.

Q. Who took the eggs ?

A. The man that works for me took them up.

Q. Where did he take the eggs-to his office ?

A. I heard the man that works for me say that he took them to the back of the Man Mo Temple.

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