6383. Do you and your daughters agree to keep the same account?-Yes; the account is generally in my name.
6384. Who does your husband work for?-He has been at the fishing, and he has been doing land-work for different people. He was working last summer to an Orkney man, who was over here at the building of the church.
6385. Does he work at farm-work, or how?-He just works at day-work, or lime-work, or anything he can get.
6386. Is he a stone-mason?-He is just a day labourer; he is not a mason.
6387. Do you keep an account at the shop at Hillswick for all your provisions and all the soft goods you want?-I have no account there just now.
6388. But you say that you are paid for your kelp by being settled with in an account?-Yes; we are paid off then for what is due to us, and there is no other account kept until the following year.
6389. You say you have never asked to be paid in money: is it all the same to you whether you are paid in money or in goods?-It is all the same.
6390. Do you swear that it is all the same to you?-It has been the custom to pay in goods, and there is no other place we could go to where we could get the money, besides if we got the money, we would just give it back into the shop that was handiest.
6391. Did you tell any person that you were afraid to come here today?-No, I was not afraid to come.
6392. Did you get any advice from any person about speaking the truth when you came here?-No.