7844. What do you deal in?-Tea, tobacco, sugar and I buy fish too.
7845. Do you cure them yourself?-Yes.
7846. How many boats have you fishing for you?-I have no boats of my own; I just buy a little fish in the winter time, and I cure the men's fish in Feideland in summer. I cure at the fishing-station for Andrew Tulloch, who was examined the other day.
7847. From what fishermen do you buy your fish?-I buy them from any man who comes along, and wants to sell fish to me.
7848. Is that in the winter time only, or in the summer as well?- In the winter only. I am a seaman myself, and I have followed the sea since I was a child, but I stayed at home this year; and in the summer season I cured Tulloch's fish, while the wife and the bairns and I have commenced to sell a little tea and sugar and tobacco, and to buy fish from the small fishing boats in winter.
7849. Is that the way which people hereabout usually take to start a shop business?-I think it is.
7850. Do you keep accounts with the men that you buy the fish from?-No.
7851. Do you pay for them in cash?-Yes; always in cash.
7852. And then they buy some provisions from you?-Yes; if they like.
7853. Are these paid for in cash too?-Yes.