11,592. Did you ever ask for it?-Yes.
11,593. Did you never get 6d. at a time?-I have got 3d., but that was the most. I once asked 1s. from Mr. Robert Linklater, to pay for mending my boots; but it was refused. That was about eight years ago.
11,594. And I suppose that did not encourage you to ask it again?-It did not. We ceased to knit for him.
11,595. Did you ask for money from anybody else?-Yes.
11,596. Did you get a little?-Nothing except a mere trifle, perhaps 11/2d. or 2d. from Mr. Sinclair.
11,597. Was that merely a balance that you had to get on your knitting?-No.
11,598. Have you an account there?-Yes. There is an account in his books.
11,599 All your knitting goes into that account and all your out-takes go into it too?-Yes.
11,600. You are just paid in goods, with 1d. or 2d. in cash now and then?-Yes.
11,601. How do you get your provisions, such as meal and potatoes?-We give tea to the farmers, and get meal and potatoes for it. We have sometimes to go to the west side, to Walls and Sandness, for that. Our aunt Elizabeth Coutts, has done that for us. She has not been to Walls and Sandness for the last two years, but she went regularly before. It was only for our own house, not for other people, that she took the tea there and got the meal and potatoes in exchange.