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it should be yellow. I told Mr. Edwards the instructions 
his man had given, to part the wool and rub it along the 
back. When in the shop, he gave me some black soap to 
take home, and Mrs. Edwards said, “ I heard you ask for the 
dipping stuff, and for the directions, and how wrong it w r as 
he did not give it.” Mr. Edwards said, “ if I had been 
there it should not have gone out without directions.” He 
said perhaps he might not see his man that evening, “ but 
when he comes home, we will put it all straight, and will 
come over in the morning.” I took the soap home, and 
used it according to his directions, and he told me to give 
the lambs some milk and the white of an egg. Everything 
was done according to his directions ; and, on the following 
morning, Mr. Edw r ards’s assistant came over. I said, a nice 
job has happened. He said, how r came you to make such a 
mistake as this? I said, I made no mistake, but told my 
master the words you told to me, to pour half a pint of 
boiling water, and take a stick and stir it, and it would make 
a nice liquid. He said, “ and so it would, but it was for the 
c slush ’ I meant.” My master said to him, “ why did you 
tell my man to rub it along the back, if it was meant for 
dipping?” He said, “it might have been used that way, by 
afterwards throwing along the back a pint of water. My 
master said, “why did you not tell my man that, and then 
this job would not have happened?” He said he thought I 
knew by my asking, and said to my master, “ if you did not 
know how to use it, you should have got some one that did.” 
My master said he should look to Mr. Edwards for the value 
of the lambs that were dead. There were three lambs that the 
stuff was not applied to, they are well now; thirty are now dead. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Blount — It was on a Saturday 
morning, about eleven, that my master gave me the order to 
go to Mr. Edwards and see if he kept stuff for dipping lambs ; 
and if he did, to get enough to dress forty-six lambs, and to 
bring directions. I walked to Usk; it is about an hour’s 
walk. Mr. Williams, of the Mardy, was in the shop at the 
time. The assistant asked me what stuff I wanted ; he did 
not ask me if I would have “ Biggs’ Mixture.” I said the 
stuff Mr. Edwards would send. He put a paper about the 
jar, and 1 saw him write “poison ’’ on the paper, lie told 
me to take a stick and stir it in a gallipot, and it would come 
to a nice liquid, fit for use. He did not tell me to burn the 
stick, he told me to destroy the plate I took with me, and 
nothing more; he did not tell me to tie the sheep’s legs, and 
mind to keep their heads above water. I did not ask him to 
give me the directions in writing; I remembered the direc- 
tions he gave me perfectly w 7 ell. I did not rub hard, nor 
