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Lang Sile
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I think this fellow is going asleep. You are accountant
and an Inspector gets something from the shop, and does not pay for it at the moment. Dont you enter it as a
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I dont enter it. That is the master's business.
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Do you mean to say that the master does not ente: any outstanding accounts, or only the outstanding accounts
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No, when the master does not tell me to enter it in the books, I dont. I dont understand this western writing
business.
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So if a Chinaman owes you money, you enter it up in the
book I suppose ?
I have to ask the master first, if he is willing to
give credit for it.
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And if the master says give credit, you enter it in the
book?
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And wheh the Chinaman pays, you mark it off, dont u
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So it is only those European accounts, you dont ke 8107
an account of ?
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I cant understand English.
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Mr Shelton Hooper:-
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Then does your master keep an accountof those Europear.
payments?
Well, sometimes they get things and sometimes they have
a drink together, and whether the money is paid or not the master is the one who will know.
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Do you ever see the master making an entry in your account books, as to money given to the Inspectore, c. for goods they have bought ?
I dont remember exactly about that.
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You said just now that your master entered those pagments in the books. Have you ever seen him enter
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