5041. Is your account read over to you at the settlement?-Yes, if we want to have it read. The shop account, if we want it, will be read over to us.
5042. If it is not read over, how do you know whether it is correctly charged or not?-The men who do not keep a note of their accounts for themselves cannot know whether they are correct or not even by hearing them read over.
5043. Are you generally content to trust to the shopkeeper for the accuracy of your account?-Yes.
5044. Do you know anything about the quality of the meal that is sold there, and the price of it?-Yes.
5045. Have you been getting meal from the shop [Page 125] during the last year or two?-Yes. Mr. Grierson's meal last year was from 2s. to 3s. per boll above what Mr. Gavin Henderson charged for his.
5046. Was the quality of Henderson's meal as good?-Yes; quite as good.
5047. Have you tried them both in your own house?-Yes.
5048. What was the price of the one and of the other?-Mr. Grierson's bear-meal was 14s. per boll-that is Shetland grain; and Gavin Henderson charged 12. for Shetland meal also.
5049. Does Mr Grierson's shopkeeper charge the same price for meal all through the year?-Yes; for the same kind of meal.
5050. All the meal of the same kind in your account is charged at the same rate throughout the year?-Yes.