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Show 5151 Bennett- C 3163 MR. FARNSWORTH: If I desire it, I will put a question to him, Mr. Blackmar. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I suppose we will all assume every witness has gone over what he is going to testify with government counsel. MR. FARNSWORTH: I assume a witness before he is put on the stand it is understood he can throw some light on the matters controversy, or he wouldn't be put on the stand. I don't know of any way finding it out except by an interview with him. MR. BLACKMAR: You can assume I tried to have every witness's testimony reduced to writing before he is put on the stand. THE SPECIAL MASTER: We will all assume it. Let's go on with the examination. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Well, anyway, regardless of what may have been the subject- matter of your conversation with Mr. Ryan, you desire to state on the occasion referred to by you on your direct examination that you walked clear across the river, one side to the other? A Where there was water, yes. Q You don't call anything a river that has no water, do you? A I have seen those things called rivers I didn't see no |