145. Every week?-No; sometimes it is more, and sometimes less.
146. Have you ever been told that you ought to go to the shop?- No.
147. Or that you are expected to go there?-No.
148. Would you still be employed there in the same way although you went and bought your goods elsewhere?-They don't bid any of their people buy out of the shop. They just please themselves. Mr. Leask just gives the money, and he does not care where you buy from.
Lerwick, January 1, 1872, Mrs. CHRISTINA WILLIAMSON, examined.
149. You are a widow, and live in the Widows' Asylum in Lerwick?-Yes.
150. Are you in the habit of knitting goods for sale?-Yes.
151. Do you knit for any particular merchant?-No; I knit for myself.
152. Do you buy your own wool?-Yes; I generally get wool, and get a woman to spin it for me.
153. Who is that woman?-Mrs. Irvine, Burn's Close.