8238. Was that lately?-It was before Christmas.
8239. Do you keep an account with Mr. Adie at Voe?-No, I keep no account.
8240. But you had an account at the time when you settled for that cloth?-Yes.
8241. How long had that account been running?-For about two years.
8242. Did you go and get the wool and make the cloth in order to settle up that account?-Yes.
8243. Was your husband fishing at the time when you were due that account?-No; it was my own account.
8244. Is it a usual thing for a woman, when she is making cloth in that way, to have an account of her own with the merchant?-Yes.
8245. She gets the goods she wants and then settles for them when she brings the cloth?-Yes.
8246. How often do you settle when you have an account running in that way?-It is not often that I make the cloth, for I have very little time in which to make it.
8247. Do you ever knit?-I knit very little except what is required for my own family.