8169. When you go back with it, are you paid for the work which you have put upon it?-We buy the wool, and then they buy the cloth from us again.
8170. What do you pay for the wool?-I bought 28 lbs. of it, and it was 1s. a lb.
8171. Do you spin it yourself?-Yes.
8172. How do you make the cloth?-There are men on the islands called wabsters who weave it.
8173. Then you spin the wool and take it to the wabsters to weave?-Yes.
8174. Do you pay for the wool when you get it at first?-We cannot pay for the wool until we get the cloth.
8175. Is it put down in your account?-Yes.
8176. And you are charged 1s. for it?-Yes.
8177. Do you take your web back to the merchant, or does the wabster take it to him?-I take the web and dress it, and go to the merchant with it.
8178. Who pays the wabster?-The merchant of course; it comes off what I have to get.