253. That worsted you knit into shawls, and these shawls you sell to the merchants, getting from them I O U's?-Yes.
254. Are you any better off under this system than you were before?-Yes. She brings home the wools, and shows me the invoice for them, and I get the wools at what she pays for them. That is much cheaper than I can purchase them for in Lerwick.
255. But you did not buy the wool under the old way of working: you got the wool supplied to you, and were paid for your work?- Yes.
256. Do you think you make more money under the present system?-Yes.
257. When you get these I O U's, you spend only part of them in purchasing worsted?-I get no worsted on them except what I get from Miss Robertson.
258. But you spend only part of them in paying Miss Robertson for worsted?-Yes; and I get part money from her for them, because they serve her just the same as money would do, in getting articles from the merchants. She favours me in that way, and enables me to support my stepmother and myself, and pay rent and taxation.
259. Do you hand all your I O U's to Miss Robertson?-No; only what I can spare.
260. You sometimes take one of them yourself to the merchant from whom you got it, and you get goods from him for it?-Yes.
261. You have more money passing through your hands now than you had formerly?-Yes. I am able now to pay my rent.
262. How did you pay your rent formerly?-I did not require it then so much. My father was alive then.