1295. You sold a beast now and then?-Yes; but Mouat took the whole of them.
1296. Did he buy your beasts too?-Yes.
1297. Did you not have liberty to sell them to other people?-No, we had no liberty at all; because he said we were under the same obligation with regard to beasts and eggs and all the produce of our farms as we were under with regard to the fish, and therefore, if he got the one, he compelled us to give him the other too.
1298. When did he tell you that about the beasts and the eggs?- He told us about it in the same year that he took the tack.
1299. Did you ever try to sell them to another?-Yes, I tried that sometimes.
1300. To whom did you try to sell them?-To any one who came round asking for such things; but I knew that if I did such a thing, and Mouat came to know about it, I must be prepared to take to my heels and fly.
1301. Did you ever actually sell any of the produce of your farm to another than Mouat?-I never sold any, except one little horse; and I sold it when I was in starvation for meal. That was towards the end of Mouat's tack.
1302. How long ago was it?-I think it is two years past.
1303. Who did you sell it to?-I sold it to a man in the neighbourhood of Quarff.
1304. What was his name?-Andrew Jamieson, he lives at Quarff now.