26. You have no other means of getting money to pay your rent?- No.
27. You pay rent for a room?-Yes.
28. And you have always got enough from the employer to whom you sell your work to pay your room rent and your food?-Yes. It had to be enough, for I could not get anything else.
29. Do you mean by that, that you would have liked to have had more money to spend upon food?-Yes.
30. But you could only get goods?-Yes.
31. How much do you earn by knitting in a week or in a month?-I suppose perhaps about 10s. in a month. I would knit a shawl in a month, and the merchant would allow me that sum for knitting it.
32. Would it take you a month to knit a shawl, working at nothing else?-Yes. Of course I would not be always at it. People cannot sit and knit continually; but it would take a month to make it, working in an ordinary way.
33. When you take that shawl to the shop, price of say 10s. is put upon it, how much of that do you got in money, and how much in goods?-I have knitted a shawl for 10s, and I have got 5s. in money on it from Mr. Linklater.
34. Is that the usual proportion of money you get?-No, not always. Sometimes I don't get so much as that.
35. Did you ever ask for more?-No; I think never asked for any more on one shawl.