11,563. Your mother is an old-woman and bedridden?-Yes; she is seventy-two.
11,564. Do you support yourself by knitting?-Yes, or by out-door work when knitting cannot be sold for money.
11,565. Would you give your whole time to knitting if you could get money for your work?-Yes.
11,566. How long are you obliged to go to out-door work in the year? Two or three months every year?-Yes; if it was all put together, it would be two or three months.
11,567. Do you just go to that when you want money?-Yes.
11,568. Is it in the fields or the fish that you work?-Sometimes in the fields and sometimes at the fish.
11,569. For how long have you been in the habit of knitting?-For about twenty-five years.
11,570. Have you often been paid in money for it?-Never, except on an occasion when a stranger was passing, or when Mr. Garriock would take my work. He has sold several shawls for me.
11,571. Did you hear what Clementina Greig said about the quantity of worsted required for a shawl?-Yes; I agree with her evidence about that.
11,572. Have you bought wool yourself?-Yes; I have bought wool from Widow Nicholson, who lives near here, and also from James Williamson, when he had a little to spare. I paid 1s. 6d. for his wool, and 1s. 4d. for hers; but that was not used entirely for shawls. I took the best of it for shawls, and the rest was used for other purposes.