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I have ridden a good many times with him on this line and I jumped into the jitney, and I was the first man to jump into the car. Mr Smith bid me good afternoon and I jumped into the car. In the middle there's two chairs that's fixed between the two, took a seat on the drivers side, so I took a chair on the right hand side of the car facing the car. Then there was a young gentlemen from Ladner by the name of Willcock, he stepped in in some of the rear seats, and he sat on one of these camp chairs, canvas chairs you open out. He put it down between the two chairs, and the mother of the children was on the on the other side, on the left hand side of the car, in the center of the of the rear seats in the center of the car, that is facing Vancouver, and the front of the chair which is fixed there. The little girl sat on his knee. Coroner;- On his knee was she? A;- On the large man's knee, he had the little girl on it.

That was on Mr Willcock's knee. He sat on this camp chair I was speaking of, right of it, and the largest girl she sat between Mr Willcock and I. She had a hand on one of his kneed and one on mine. Now I sat directly behind Mr George Smith the driver. The car is built in such a way that it retracted does not hinder my view from passing out through the window. It leaves you room if you are sitting inside. I sat there and I watched through from the time we left Ladners until we hit the fence of the bridge, I could see the road all the ways in because it is in my line of business. Now, when we got on our way, past the plank road, I think they call it number 19, that would be a mile from the end of the furthest bridge, I am not sure of the number of that road, although I had a trip through before. About three hundred yards further we left that road after we left the plank road, coming down to the bridge there's a