11,661. Do you know any people who make a trade of buying goods from the knitters, and selling them through the country?-I could not say that any person makes a trade of it. I don't think any person would like to do that.
11,662. Are there not some women who hawk goods through the country, which they have got in that way?-I know there are and I have done that myself more than once.
11,663. What have you done more than once?-Taken the soft goods which I got at Lerwick, and gone through the country and sold them. The last time I did that was three years past in spring, and I had done it before.
11,664. Was it in a bad year when you did that?-Yes.
11,665. And you wanted potatoes?-Yes.
11,666. Had you to travel far in order to get them?-Between two and three miles.
11,667. Had you tried often before you got your goods sold?-Not often. Of course, I had spoken to the people before I took the goods to them. I did not go out on the chance of selling them.
11,668. Were the goods taken as a favour to you, and not in the ordinary way of business?-Yes, it was done quite as a favour.
11,669. But do you know any person who travels through the country regularly, and hawks goods which have been bought from the knitters?-I don't know any person particularly who has done that.
11,670. Have you ever heard that such things were done?-I cannot say that I have.