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Q.-But when you made your tender in these days you knew you would receive copper and you allowed for it I presume?
A. Very seldom I did.
Q.--But still you know perfectly well you would get 10 per cent in copper; you
knew it beforehand?
A. Yes.
Q.-And therefore you allowed for it?
A. Yes.
Q.-Do you write your own bills?
A. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I ask my friends to do it for me.
Q.-IS CHAN FUK a friend of yours?
A. Everyone is the same to me.
Q.-Does CHAN Fux write your bills for
you
sometimes?
A. Sometimes he does.
-Do you give CHAN FUK a trifle for writing the bills for you?
A.-No, I do not.
Q.-We are told it is a custom perfectly understood that Mr. CHAN FUK, when he makes out bills for work not done by contract, gets one per cent for making out the
bills.
A.—I don't know what other people may have done, but I used to measure the work I had done and put down the amount.
Q.-It is not a question of measuring, but of writing the bill.
A. He simply translates the Chinese paper I give him.
Q.Who? CHAN FUK?
A. Yes, and sometimes AKAM.
Q.-But if you give him a paper in Chinese, and he has to translate it into English, he expects something for his trouble, does he not?
else.
A.-Why should I give him anything? If he did not do it I could get someone
Q.-But why should he do it, of all people in the world? It is not his business.
A.-I ask him whether he would be willing to do it.
Q.-And so he does it out of sheer good nature?
A. He would not dare to ask me for
any
cumshaw.
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