8209. You mean that you got the wool on credit?-Yes.
8210. You had bought the wool, but you had not paid for it?-Yes.
8211. It was entered against you at 1s. a pound?-Yes.
8212. Then the wool was your own, although you might be owing Mr. Adie money for the price?-It was not Mr. Adie that that wool belonged to: it was Mr. Anderson that I got it from.
8213. And he would not give you the money at all?-He would not.
8214. Why did you not take it to somebody else and sell it for, money? If you had done that, you could then have sent the 28s. to Mr. Anderson, which you were due to him for the wool: did you not think of doing that?-No; I did not think of doing it.
8215. Could you have done that?-I might; I don't know; I never asked.
8216. Do you think Mr. Anderson would have objected, or would he have allowed you to take the cloth away again after you had brought it?-I cannot say because I never asked about that.
8217. Did you ever ask money before with which to pay the wabster?-Yes.
8218. Did you get it?-I have got money before from Mr. Anderson himself,-money to pay the wabster.