282. The things you got you really wanted?-Yes.
283. Suppose you had got 15s. in cash, would you have purchased your goods there?-Yes. Whatever wearing goods I required, I would not have purchased them anywhere else. I am quite satisfied with Mr. Sinclair's goods; but I am always needing money so much that I have always to ask it.
284. Does this system of not getting money, or being paid in goods, make you buy more dress or clothing than you would otherwise care for?-Yes; I would not need one half the clothes I get, if I could get money.
285. That is to say, you would prefer to take the money, and spend it upon food?-Yes.
286. Or lay it by?-I should not think much of laying it by, if I could only get enough to serve the present time.
287. Have you handed the I O U's to anybody else than Miss Robertson?-Yes; to lots of people.
288. For money?-Yes; for money, and for peats or fuel for the winter. My acquaintances will sometimes take a line from me to oblige me, because I have no money to give them.
289. Name one of them?-John Ridling, Burn's Lane, is one of them.
290. What would he do with it?-Mrs. Ridling would send it to the shop and purchase anything she wanted.
291. Have you known these lines passing through more hands than one before coming to the shop?-Yes; they would do that.