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1141 A. No sir, Have seen no patients treated unkindly by hired help. Q. What do you call unkindly? A. Unkindly would be to see one of them struck kicked or banged around and abused in that way. Q. And all this you never saw a man hit? A. No sir , I never saw a man hit nor struck nor kicked. Q. Inside the hospital did you ever see A. I don't go in there average scarcely a trip a year. My business is not there and I don't go there. I don't know anything about it. I have I can attend to outside. Q. All you see of the patients then is outside in the field? A. That is all, scarcely ever go inside Q. The men are a good deal better off to work than to be round lazy and idle? A. It is my opinion that some of them were. Q. You never abused a patient did you? A. No sir, I never kicked or struck any of them. By Mr. Pattengall Q. These men worked generally under you as I