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Read in the Wunder reader — freeQ. Going out as usual?
A. Yes.
Q. On the 21st, for instance?
A. The 21st he went out to dine.
Q. Where did he go to?
A. I cannot positively say.
Q. Did he tell you where he was going to?
A. I do not recollect.
Q. Upon your oath, did he not tell you he had been to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's?
A. No.
Q. You swear that?
A. Yes.
Q. Nor that he was going there?
A. No.
Q. When you came home on the Monday, did you see any black coat in the room?
A. I did.
Q. Was that your master's black coat, or a strange black coat?
A. A strange black coat.
Q. That black coat must have fitted your master vastly well?
A. I cannot say, I never saw it on.
Q. You brushed it, did not you?
A. Yes; but not on his back.
Q. You are used to brushing his coats?
A. Of course.
Q. Now, a servant used to brush his master's coat, must know the size pretty well; this would be rather a short coat upon him, would it not?
A. No; I do not think it would.
Q. Upon your oath, would it not have been a great deal too long; was not it the coat of a man six feet high?
A. I did not know who owned the coat.
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