11,641. You have to take a little off them in order to get what you want?-Yes.
11,642. Do you do that several times in the year?-I do it very often.
11,643. Do you know that other knitters have to do the same thing?-Very likely they do. I believe there are others who have to do it besides me.
11,644. Have you often given away your lines in the way you have mentioned?-Yes, very often.
11,645. Do you make a practice of it?-Yes, I have had to do it.
11,646. Do you get a great number of lines in the course of the year?-Sometimes; not a great many. I just get them as I require them.
11,647. What do you get for the lines when you part with them in the way you have mentioned?-I have got money, and sometimes provisions.
11,648. Have you got money for a line lately?-Yes, in harvest. It was a line for 7s.
11,649. Did you get 7s. in money for it?-Yes; but when the people came to take the goods, if they did not get them to their own mind, I had to make up whatever loss they had upon them.
11,650. Was that the bargain, that if they did not get their satisfaction in goods, you were to give them back some of the money?-No, not the money. I was just to give them something in addition. Of course, they could not expect the money back from me.