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[page 901] them off; when they are put in there we generally take off their boots so that they cannot kick. Ques. Did you report it. Ans. Reported it to Mr. Luce. Ques. Is there not a rule not to put a patient into the lodge without the permission of the superintendent. Ans. Yes sir. Ques. Were there any bruises or marks on Longfellow. Ans. Either that night or the next morning, Dr. Sanborn or Dr. Harlow asked me what the matter was with his eye. I told him he hurt it when he went down to the lodge. He bumped his eye so that it turned black on the lid. Ques. What did he bump it against. Ans. The lodge floor had a lot of beds in it that the lodge attendants had taken out to fill; in trying to get his boots off he broke away from the other two attendants and jumped onto me, I was back to the bed and we went right over the bed, he and I together onto the floor; he bumped his eye on the floor somehow. Ques. Were you on top of him. Ans. No sir. Ques. Did he not bump his eye against your fist. Ans. No sir. Ques. You would not call that abusing a patient. Ans. No.