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[page 831] Ques. Is there a bowl there used for Peter to drink out of. Ans. Yes sir. Ques. Clean and wholesome. Ans. The same as the fireman drank out of. Ques. Did you ever give him a greasy wash dish to drink out of. Ans. I never did. Ques. Did you ever pinch that man's flesh with tongs. Ans. No sir. Ques. Did you ever apply hot tongs to him in any way. Ans. No sir. Ques. When and under what circumstances have you had anything to do with tongs so far as he was concerned. Ans. I have often had him at work out the large with me; somedays he would het a little stupid and dull, and I have taken a little pair of tongs taken hold of his coat sleeve just to wake him up, nothing more or less than spent. Ques. Did you over pinch his flesh with the tongs. Ans. Not to my knowledge. I never saw anybody else do it. I never saw him abused in any way. Ques. Were the men in the engine room, yourself and the fireman in the habit of sporting with him one way and another. Ans. We always have been.