1463. Do they always get goods for their lines when they come down?-Yes.
1464. Will they not get a line to come down at another time for the goods?-No; I don't think they would get them in that way.
1465. Suppose you did not want the whole amount of your line in goods at one time, could you not take the line home with you, and when you happened to be again in Lerwick might you not get the balance in any kind of goods you wanted that were in the shop?- Yes; and I could get the goods at any time if I were to send down the line.
1466. Is that sometimes done?-I have never done it; but I suppose the merchants would do it.
1467. Did you ever know of a line being sold to another for money, or for another kind of goods?-No; I never did that myself, and I don't know of it being done.
1468. Is it all drapery that you are taking back?-Yes.
1469. Then you will have about £2 or £3 worth of it this time?- Yes.
1470. Do you want all that for your own use?-The girl for whom I sold one of the shawls will get her share of it.
1471. But when you brought down five shawls you might have twice as much to take back as you have this time?-It is not very much that they give for the shawls sometimes; and once, when I came down from Fetlar and had to pay the freight, I had to take what they would give me; and I could not get what I asked.
1472. Is it all stuff for, your own use that you are taking back, in exchange for your own, shawls which you sold?-Yes.