13,877. Do you always get your account read over to you at settlement?-Yes; Mr. Robertson sometimes does it.
13,878. Do you settle with Mr. Robertson himself?-Yes.
13,879. Does he always read over your account?-Sometimes he reads it over, and at other times he allows me to get it read over by Mr. Sutherland.
13,880. Is there a separate account kept for any of your family?- No.
13,881. I see from your pass-book that in 1870 you got two advances of cash in April and June?-Yes.
13,882. Do you get cash advanced to you when you ask it?-Yes.
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13,883. Had you a balance to get at the settlement for 1870?-I think I had.
13,884. I see that on September 9th, 1870, you were charged quarter boll best oatmeal, 5s. 8d.; September 26th, quarter boll, 5s. 6d.; one peck, 1s. 4d. Were you buying meal in Lerwick at that time?-No; that was just about the time when I was getting in my crop.
13,885. Did you buy any meal in Lerwick last summer or autumn?-I bought some in April before I began to the fishing. I paid £2 to Mr. John Tait for sack of Orkney oatmeal.