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1785. How many shawls may you sell for yourself in the course of a year?-Sometimes there may be two.
1786. May there sometimes be three?-I could not tell the number particularly, but I have always one or two in the course of the twelvemonth.
1787. I suppose you are chiefly engaged with your dressing business, and have not much time to knit shawls?-Yes; the dressing is my only way of living.
1788. Are you a widow?-Yes.
1789. Have you often got lines similar to the one you have now produced?-Yes. Whenever I sell a shawl to Mr. Sinclair I get these lines, and then I give them to the girls to whom the shawls belong.
1790. Then they don't always want the value of their shawls in goods, but they sometimes take a line-Yes; and they keep it until they want something else. They are always served with what they want when they come with a line.
1791. You have not a pass-book with any of the merchants?-No.
1792. I suppose pass-books are only used where girls knit with the merchants wool?-Yes.
1793. Do you keep a pass-book with any of the merchants for the shawls which you dress for them?-No; I just get the money.