8179. Is the wabster paid at the time when he does the work, or when you come back from the merchant?-I pay him when I come back from the merchant after I have sold the cloth.
8180. How much cloth would you make out of 28 lbs. of wool?-I made 27 yards out of it.
8181. You make about a yard of cloth out of a pound of wool?- Yes; that is generally the way of it when it is ordinary wool.
8182. What is the price put upon the cloth when you take it back to the merchant?-That is just as the price stands; sometimes the price is up and sometimes not.
8183. But you spoke of a particular time when you got 28 lbs. of wool: was that long ago?-I got it in Christmas week, and I went back with it in the month of April.
8184. What did you get for it?-I got 2s. a yard.
8185. That would be 1s. a yard, for your work and the wabster?- Yes.
8186. Is that about an ordinary price?-It was the price that was given then.
8187. Do you sometimes get more than that?-Yes; if the price is up. I have got as high as 3s. 5d. for it.
8188. Was that long ago?-It is a few years since; I cannot recollect exactly.