6687. Are your dealings in cloth with the people the country very extensive?-I buy a good deal of it occasionally, when the trade is brisk.
6688. Is it paid for regularly in cash?-Yes.
6689. Do your purchases of it not appear in this book?-There may be some of them there.
6690. But are the majority of your purchases of that sort of cloth entered here?-Possibly they may appear in the men's ledger more frequently, unless when the cloth is bought over the counter.
6691. If it is paid for in cash, why does it appear in any ledger?- What is paid for cash does not appear in any ledger.
6692. Does it not appear in your day-book?-No, it does not enter our day-book. We just buy it the same as we buy any hosiery. For instance, if a girl brings it in, she may require the value of it in goods; that is a separate transaction, finished at once, and there is no more trace of it.
6693. Is the cloth almost all of the same quality?-It is all very much the same.
6694. Do you ticket each web at the time when you take it in?- Yes.
6695. Then I understand you to say, that the great bulk of your dealings in cloth are cash transactions?-Yes, I think the bulk of them, or they are settled for at the time in goods.
6696. Is tea a very usual article for the knitters to take out their payments in?-I think it is. They often take tea.