215. Is it something you have knitted with your own wool?-Yes; but I have sent it south.
216. Is that because you expect to get money there?-Yes; I have sent it to an old neighbour woman of mine who is now in Thurso.
217. Is she a person who makes a practice of dealing in such things?-No; she is just an acquaintance of mine.
218. Is there anything else you wish to say?-No.
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219. Are you a knitter in Lerwick?-Yes.
220. Do you live alone?-I live with my aged stepmother.
221. Who do you work for?-For the last six years I have knitted for myself, but before that I used to knit for the merchants in general. I knitted for the late Mr. Laurenson, and Mr. G. Harrison, and Mr. Tulloch, and Mr. Linklater,-in short, for almost all the merchants.
222. But that was six years ago?-Yes.