12,741. Did you ask for much?-No; perhaps for £1 or so, when I required it.
12,742. Were you at liberty to buy your supplies at any other place you liked?-Yes, if I had money to give for them.
12,743. Could you have got money?-I did not ask it for that.
12,744. If you had asked for money with which to go and buy your meal and tea in Lerwick, would you have got it from Mr. Umphray?-I don't know that. If he had known it was my intention to go with it to other parties, I don't think he would have given it to me, because he would have wanted for himself any profit there was upon it.
12,745. Have you any reason for supposing so?-I have only my own reasons for supposing it, and I would think so.
12,746. Has he ever told you that he expects you to buy your goods at his shop?-No. He has never said anything about that.
12,747. Has he ever had any occasion to tell you that?-No.
12,748. Do you think he would tell you that if you went and got your goods in Lerwick or in Whalsay?-I don't know.
12,749. Have you ever been fined for selling your produce to anybody else or for fishing for another than Mr. Adie?-No.
12,750. Do you want to have liberty to fish for another?-Of course we should like to fish for any one who would pay us most.