11,651. Did you give them anything back?-They have not sought for it yet, and I cannot say whether they will ask for anything or not.
11,652. Have you always got the full amount of the line in money, when you gave it in that way?-No; not altogether.
11,653. Have you sometimes given it for less than the sum named in it?-Yes.
11,654. For 6d. or 1s. less?-That just depended on the amount of the line. I could not say particularly.
11,655. Did you get the full value for all the lines [Page 286] which you parted with last harvest?-Yes, I got the full value for them, but it was as a favour to me that I got it.
11,656. Can you mention any case in which you got less for a line than the sum that was named in it?-I could not remember any particular case where that happened with a line; but I have often suffered a good deal of loss by the soft goods. On one occasion I lost 1s. 6d. upon 6s. 6d.
11,657. Did you get 6s. 6d. worth of soft goods, and give them away for 5s.?-Yes.
11,658. Did you get 5s. in money?-No; not altogether in money, but partly in meal. They said the cost price of the articles would be 5s, and they gave me that value for them.
11,659. Have you ever given anything back, when the people that you gave the lines to were not able to satisfy themselves at the shop?-Yes, once. I gave them the worth of 1s. in other goods that I had got from the shop.
11,660. What was the value of that line?-I cannot say. The lines I have got have run between 3s. and 10s.; but I could not say the exact amount of that particular line.