5311. Did anybody else tell you that?-No.
5312. Was it understood in the neighbourhood that you were bound to give all your fish to him?-Yes; all my neighbours understood the same.
5313. Did you at any time deliver your fish to another?-Not one tail. I delivered them all to him during his tack.
5314. Was there one time when he gave you warning to leave?- On one occasion, when we had a good fishing, he sent away 7 cwt. of wet fish and kept it off us. My son was fishing with me at the time, and he went to Mouat; and they rather cast out about it at Mouat's house, and he told my son then that we should not be allowed to sit.
5315. Then it was because of a quarrel about the quantity of fish entered in the fish-book that you got your warning?-Yes.
5316. You were not warned out because you gave your fish to another dealer?-No; that was not the cause of it. Then, Mouat would not give me half of the land to sit in, in case my son sat beside me.
5317. Do you mean that he wanted your son to fish for him?-No; he thought that because they had cast out, if I got any land at all, my son would stay beside me; and that upset my son and made him lose his senses, so that he is now in the Asylum.
5318. How did that upset your son?-Because he was of a quick spirit, and he was grieved that we should have been put out of the land.
5319. But you were not put out of the land?-We were. I went to the sea, and Mouat took my wife to a piece of the hill-side and showed her there where we should build our house on a piece of the open hill.
5320. Did you build your house there?-Yes. He said that if we would not build our house there, we might lie at the back of a dyke.