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In writing ?

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Yes, to do as little damage as possible.

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But any specific instructions as to what quantity to

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take up?

A.

I am afraid not.

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What instructions are you alluding to ?

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To do as little damage as possible. Some officers

read that as one tile, and many of them did only open

up one tile.

Do you think that is sufficient ?

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No, I dont.

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How many tiles do you think sufficient ?

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He wants to take up four tiles at each place, end cut

up a square block.

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If in taking up one tile he finds the floor good, do you consider he is justified in taking up any more?

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He hardly taste the concrete. As soon as he lifts Cho tile, he simply digs a hole through the surface. He has not got enough room to cut a piece entire. Dont you think that, doing as little danze as possible, if a man digs up one tile and drives a pick in to it, and he finds it all aisintegrated like sand that he

might go on, but

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I never had the good fortune to find it so good and no tough that we could not deal with it with the pick. How many examinations have you made ?

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Three or four hundred.

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Extending over how many years ?

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Not years,

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extending over the last year.

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And how many cases did you find bad?

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90 or 95 per cent.

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Where were the five per cent that you found good ??

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