1987. How does he know the girl for whom the shawl has been sold, when he only marks it in the book?-I give in the girl's name to him, and she goes and asks for the amount that is marked in her name, and gets it.
1988. If she knows the amount?-I tell her the amount.
1989. Then she knows the amount, and that is sufficient to identify her?-Yes.
1990. Do these country girls sometimes ask you to get money for them rather than goods?-No; they have never asked me to do that.
1991. Do they sometimes get part of their payment in money?-I cannot tell about that. They always get a line from me, and I cannot tell how the merchants and they settle.
1992. Do you know whether lines are sometimes given for the goods which are sold by the knitters in town?-I cannot say anything about that.
1993. Or which are sold by yourself?-No; I don't know anything about that myself.
1994. You never took lines for the shawls you knitted yourself?- No; not for my own goods.
1995. Do you sometimes sell to strangers, or to people who are not in the trade?-No; I have never done that.
1996. I suppose you meet with people who knit a good deal, and have a number of transactions with them?-Yes.