4442. Is that store managed in much the same way Goudie has described with regard to the store at Grutness?-No, not exactly in the same way. Most of the things which are kept there are much the same as in other places.
4443. Do you mean that the quality of the goods is the same?- Yes, it is much the same as elsewhere.
4444. And you don't complain of the prices there?-No, not of the things that I deal in myself.
4445. What are these-meal and tea?-No; I deal very little in these things there, because it has pleased God that I could mend myself in another way.
4446. In what way?-By going to another store.
4447. Then you are not obliged to deal with that store at all?-No, I am not obliged to go to that store unless I like.
4448. Is that because you have ready money with which to buy at another store?-Exactly.
4449. You have always got some money in your hands?-Yes.
4450. Do you sometimes buy in Lerwick?-Yes.
4451. But you also buy at Mr. Bruce's store at Voe?-Yes; some trifling things, such as rope or iron hoop, or the like of that; and these are sold at much the same prices there as I can get them for at other places.