243. Was it generally on a Saturday that you were with?-I did not make any particular settlement; it was just any time that I went.
244. When you got a settlement and took home some of these soft goods, did you go to your neighbours, or to the baker's or provision dealer's shop, and ask for what you wanted in the way of food?-No; but any neighbours that knew me would take from me some of the goods I had, and perhaps give them to a country friend of theirs, and get the money for them.
245. During the last six years you have got into the way of knitting with your own wool?-Yes.
246. Where do you buy your wool, or how do you get it?-There is a lady in the town-a dressmaker and milliner-who deals very largely in hosiery.
247. What is her name?-Miss Robertson. She takes goods from me on lines which I get for my shawls and she gives me wool and cash to favour me, because she knows I have no other way of getting money.
248. What do you mean by taking goods on lines-When I sell a shawl to any hosiery merchant in the town, I get any sort of goods that are in the shop, except wool to knit with; but if I don't want the goods at the time, then the gentleman will give me a line to the amount I have to get.
249. Is that an I O U?-That used to be on them. I think there are other two letters now; but they mean all the same thing.
250. Have you any of these lines?-I have one home. I shall bring it. If I go back to the shop with the line, or send anybody back with it, the merchant's servants will serve the party who brings it with the amount.
251. They will give you full value for it?-Yes, to the full value of the lines.
252. Then Miss Robertson takes these I O U's from you, and gives you worsted for them?-Yes.