14,903. Might you not have seen them if you had asked for it?-I never asked for it.
14,904. Then you have no reason to believe that you got less for your fish than they actually brought when sold in Leith?-I cannot say what the Leith price was.
14,905. But you could have seen the bills of sale if you had asked for them?-I do not think I would have been allowed to see the bills of sale.
14,906. You cannot be sure of that unless you had asked for them?-No, I cannot be sure of that; but I don't believe they would have been shown to me.
14,907. Why did you not ask for them?-I don't know.
14,908. Were you afraid to do that?-No, I was not afraid; but it did not occur to me to do so. I know that last year I was stopped from selling my fish, and free men were paid 8s. 6d., while I was only paid 8s. for them.
14,909. Was that for your green fish?-Yes.
14,910. Then what fish were you selling dry?-Ling, tusk, and cod.
14,911. Were these your winter fish?-No, they were the summer fish.
14,912. But I thought you were bound to deliver your fish green to Mr. Anderson?-No. We had been in the practice of salting them before we delivered them, and we continued to do so until last year; but he stopped us from salting them then.