2828. Are their names entered in your books?-Yes.
2829. Has each of them an account in your ledger?-Yes; a small book which I keep for the purpose. [Produces book.] We generally settle for an article when they bring it in, but sometimes there may be a balance on one side or the other.
2830. Does this book show the amount of cash that is paid for the shawls brought in to you?-No. There are many transactions that are never entered here at all.
2831. But does the book show the amount of cash that is paid for shawls which are knitted to order with your own wool?-No; when I give out wool for the knitting of a shawl, no note of it appears in the book at all.
2832. What note do you take of it?-I merely take a memorandum on a piece of paper.
2833. Then you may have a lot of slips of that kind lying beside you?-No. I very likely burn them whenever the shawls are returned, and if I know the woman sufficiently well, I may give the wool to her without keeping any note of it of any kind.
2834. Do you trust to your memory for that?-Yes. I weigh the wool before it goes out.
2835. What proportion of the wages of these workers is paid by you in money?-I cannot say.
2836. Will there be a shilling in the pound paid money?-I cannot say, but I think there will be more than that.
2837. May there be 2s.?-I cannot say exactly. Perhaps if they come with a shawl for which they are to get 8s. or 10s., they may get 1s. or 2s. upon it, but if they did not ask it, they would not get it.