3035. How do you know it was that particular act on your part which caused this letter to be written?-Because Mouat told me so himself.
3036. When did he tell you so?-That same year, just a few days after the letter was written
3037. How was it that you did not leave your ground at that time?-We just never minded him, but went on as we had been doing. I and the rest of the men fished for him, and that man fished for Thomas Tulloch as he had been doing, and Mouat never asked anything about it afterwards. He just annulled the letter, as it were.
3038. You have produced another summons of removing: what does it refer to?-It is the summons that was served upon another man, Thomas Jamieson, at the same time that the summons was served upon me, and for the same thing. He knew that I was coming here, and he wanted me to bring his summons also, that I might show it to you. He had also fished for James Smith in 1870.
3039. Have you anything to say about Mouat's shop?-It was very little worth.
3040. Did you get all your goods there?-Yes.
3041. Were you obliged to take them there?-We were because we could not get them anywhere else.
3042. Did Mouat tell you that you must take them from him?-He did not say that we must take them; but when we were fishing for him, and getting no money, we were obliged to go and take our goods from his shop. Although they had been double the price of what they were anywhere else, we had no other way of doing. We could not make a better of it.
3043. You think the quality of the articles you got there was not good?-It was not.
3044. The meal especially was bad?-Yes; the meal was worst.