1501. When you got two quarter pounds, would you sell one quarter entire?-Yes. When people were working for me, then I had to give them a quarter of a pound of tea in order to pay them, because I did not have money to give them.
1502. What people had you working for you?-I have sometimes been sick, and I have had a person attending upon me, because I am not healthy; and I had to pay these persons in tea.
1503. Are you a married woman?-No.
1504. Have you a house of your own?-Yes; a room.
1505. The entries in this book only come down to February 1870. Have you had no book since then?-No.
1506. Have you still been dealing with Mr. Linklater?-No; I have been working for myself with my own worsted. That was when I stopped knitting for him.
1507. I see an entry on September 9th 1868, Tea 10d., tea 8d., 1s. 6d.: would these be two quarter pounds of tea of different quality?-Sometimes they would be that, and sometimes not.
1508. But I am speaking of that particular entry. Was it so in that, case?-I cannot remember.
1509. But when you got tea at 10d. and tea at 8d., that must have been two quarter pounds of different qualities?-Yes; I would get better tea, and tea that was not so good.
1510. When you got them on the same day, would you be intending to sell one of them?-Yes.