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lime is set, and where all the rat traps are set, When did you begin that book ?

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I mɛ instructed to do that by Dr Pearse, about four

or five months ago.

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Xr Fung Wa Chun:-

But before that, you had ne recorde at all ▼ Except that of the rat catchers om pocket book.

Then,

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Mr Lau Chu Pak:-

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at that the, you did not know where the trapa 10.124

were laid ?

Oh yes, I could always sall in his book, and rand fra his book, through the olerk in the office, and take down the addressas where they had those rat traps, and

bird line boards, and so on.

Before four or five months ago, you went entirely by 20125

the entries made by the soolies themselves ?

By the entries in his own pocket book.

But you could not ohask those entries, whether they 20216- were right or not?

Oh yes.

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How?

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I demanded this book, and asked the clerk in the office

to read it, and I took out the addresses and asked if

#it was correct, and then I would go out to the address,

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Referenca:-

CO. 537

and see for myself.

Kr Fung wa Chun:-

That means to say, that the coolies go out,

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with three rat traps ?

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Changing from house to house.

And entering peoples houses at any hour during the day?

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At my hour during the day,

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And putting their

where they liked ?

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Mostly in the ki

back yards, and under the stairs

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Naver in the mang ▼

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Yes, under the atuiromas.

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