1542. You get some things that you want, and some things that your neighbours want, and as much as you can in money?-Yes.
1543. Do you often get tea for the purpose of selling it?-I get it when I ask it; but I only ask it when I know of a person who will take it from me for what they have done for me.
1544. How do you purchase the provisions-the meal and bread- that you want?-When I sell anything that I get for my work, I buy them with the money.
1545. But if you don't have the money, what do you do?-I don't have money at the time, I go down to a shop and get it from them until I can get the money to pay for it.
1546. What did you do with the 14s. that you got for the shawls from Miss Leisk?-It would go for worsted to make other things.
1547. Have you always to pay money for your worsted?-Yes.
1548. You don't get provisions, either meal or bread, at the shops where you sell your shawls?-No.
1549. Is that never done in Lerwick?-No; I never had it done to me. Those who buy the shawls keep nothing of that kind.
1550. Would you be content to take a lower price [Page 31] for your shawls if you were paid for them in money instead of goods?-Yes.
1551. Have the merchants ever offered you a lower price for your shawls in money?-No.