1756. How is it that they don't want money?-They have some other way of doing at home, and I suppose they only want their clothing from the shops in Lerwick.
1757. Then the knitting with them is an extra sort of employment?-Yes; it is not exactly a livelihood for them.
1758. Is that the case with the town girls too?-No; they generally depend on their knitting for a living.
1759. Do they regard it as a hardship not to get money?-I can only speak for myself, not for them. When I have a shawl of my own, and ask some money on it, I get it.
1760. Do the town girls come to you to sell their articles for them?-No; they sell their own work themselves. I dress the shawls for them, and they get the price themselves-sometimes in money I suppose, to pay me with.
1761. You think they get sufficient money for their shawls from the merchants, to pay your charge?-They get money somewhere to pay me with: whether it is their own money or not I don't know. I don't take anything but money.
1762. You give them credit sometimes until their shawl is sold?- Yes.
1763. And then they come back you with the charge for dressing?-Yes.
1764. You shown me a line: where did you get it?-I got it in Mr. Robert Sinclair's shop-I think from his clerk.
1765. When?-When I sold my shawl-a shawl of my own, which I knitted myself.