1882. Do you generally get a smaller price when you sell to a stranger in that way?-Perhaps I may sometimes have asked a smaller price, as it was the money I was to get.
1883. If you wanted the money, why did you not, when selling your shawls to a merchant, ask him for the ready money, and take 1s. or 2s. less?-I don't know. I never thought of that.
1884. Was it not because it was not the practice here to give money?-Yes; that is the truth.
1885. Of course a shawl which you sold to a stranger in that way would be one knitted with your own worsted which you had bought?-Yes.
1886. Do you always pay ready money for your worsted?- Always.
1887. Do you always buy your worsted from the merchants in town?-Sometimes; and sometimes, when the country people come down, they have worsted with them, and I buy it from them too.
1888. Is the price the same in both cases?-Yes, always.
1889. If you were selling a shawl to a merchant and taking goods, and if you asked to have part of the goods in worsted, is there any objection made to that way of dealing?-No; I never heard any objection made to that.
1890. Did you ever get worsted as part of the goods you received in payment for your shawls?-Yes.
1891. Often?-Not very often; sometimes.