2916. With small farmers and such like?-Yes.
2917. Do you find that they are generally ready and able to pay you in cash for the goods you sell?-There are some cases where I hate to lie out of it for a good while.
2918. But your general mode of dealing is in cash?-Yes; but if they come forward with an article which is suitable for my hosiery trade, I may take it and give them goods for it, the same as if they were to pay me in cash.
2919. Money payments are the rule in your shop, and hosiery the exception?-Yes.
2920. But when you are offered hosiery, is there a different price charged by you for your I make no difference. I buy their hosiery, such of it as I accept, the same as cash, and I expect to get a cash price for it.
2921. In selling hosiery, do you put a profit upon it?-By no means.
2922. You sell it at the price which you put upon it to the person who brought it?-Yes, so that I can get the price of my goods.
2923. You regard it merely as a currency in which you are paid for your proper drapery goods?-Yes.
Lerwick, January 4, 1872, JOHN MANSON, examined.
2924. You were at one time a fisherman at Dunrossness?-Yes.