1552. Have you ever asked them to do that, or tried to get them to do it?-I knew that I need not try that, because I would not have got it.
1553. Do you manage to sell many of your shawls privately in the town, or to visitors in the summer?-No.
1554. Is there not a good deal of that done in Lerwick?-I believe some people do that, but I don't do it.
1555. Is it not an advantage to get them sold in that way?-Yes; I think it would be an advantage to get ready money.
1556. Do charitable ladies sometimes take the shawls-and get them sold to their friends at a distance?-I can say nothing about that, because I never sold them in that way.
1557. Do you give receipts for the goods or money which you get as the price of your shawls?-No.
1558. The transaction is all done across the counter, without any writing?-Yes.
1559. Do you know whether the shopkeeper enters the price of the shawls, and the amount of the goods sold to you in return for them, in any book? Do you see whether that is done?-No, I don't see it.
1560. You have never noticed that?-No.
Lerwick, January 3, 1872, MARY HUTCHISON, examined.