4177. What money was that? Had you earned it by working at other things than knitting?-Yes.
4178. How did you make more of it than you would have done by spending it in the hosiery shop?-I went to other shops where there were better articles.
4179. Where did you go?-Sometimes to Mr. George Tait's.
4180. Does he not buy hosiery?-No, he never buys hosiery.
4181. Where else did you go to?-To Mr. Thomas Nicholson.
4182. But he buys hosiery?-Sometimes; if it is very good.
4183. Tell me anything you bought at Mr. Tait's or Mr. Nicholson's which was cheaper than you would have got it for at the shops where you sold your hosiery?-It was only trifling things we bought out of their shops, because we never had money to buy things of great value from them.
4184. What were some of these trifling things?-Perhaps we were requiring neckties, or ribbons, or flowers; we might get them from them, but we scarcely ever went there to buy anything like dresses. I remember once buying a dress at Mr. George Tait's and I got a splendid bargain of it for money.
4185. Did you get it any cheaper than you would have got it from the shops where they buy hosiery?-Yes; he reduced the price because it was to be paid money.
4186. If you had offered money in Mr. Linklater's or Mr. Sinclair's shops; would you not have got the dress as cheap there?-I don't think it.