11,728. Are the men at liberty to sell as many fish as they please to you in winter and spring?-Yes, at any time of the year.
11,729. Then you could engage a boat's crew in your district without any restriction?-Yes; there are no bound men there.
11,730. Are there many merchants in the parish of Sandsting who do about the same extent of business as you?-I think most of them do more business than me, because it is longer since they commenced, and they are better in the way of it.
11,731. Do you mean that they have got a larger connection?- Yes; and a better locality.
11,732. Are most of them engaged in buying fish?-No; there are scarcely any of them about me who are in the fishing trade, except Messrs. Garriock & Co. They have almost all the fishing business in that part of the country.
11,733. Have they the largest shop business too?-Yes.
11,734. Whom do you sell your fish to?-To Mr. Harrison generally. We sell them to him as soon as they are dried at the end of the year.
11,735. Are you paid for them in cash?-Yes, if we want cash.
11,736. If you don't want cash, do you take goods for your shop?-Yes, if we want them; but if we want cash he gives it at any time either in advance or at settling time.
11,737. But he does supply goods in a wholesale way to merchants?-Yes; he sometimes supplies me with little meal and tea, and general groceries.