223. When you knitted for the merchants, was the wool supplied to you by them?-Yes.
224. Did you pay for it when you got it out, or when you were paid for your work upon it?-I was just paid for my work.
225. How much would you be able to make in a week at that sort of work?-I could not exactly say how much. I was in delicate health; but in some weeks I might have earned 1s. 6d. a day, and in some weeks perhaps less.
226. Was that the only thing you were working at?-Yes. The only sort of knitting I had was veils and shawls.
227. But was knitting the only thing you were employed at that time?-That was the only thing I was ever employed at in my life.
228. Then, on an average, you earned from 5s. to 6s. a week?- Yes; or from 4s. to 5s.
229. How often were you paid?-Just when I asked for any sort of goods that were in the shop.
230. Would you go once a week or once a fortnight to the shop for payment?-Yes; perhaps I would. I just went as I was done with the work which they required.
231. Did you get a book?-No. I never kept a book.
232. How did you know how much was due to you?-I just depended on the truth of the gentlemen's statements when they added up my accounts.