8325. You get some wool from the merchant?-Yes.
8326. And that is set down against your name in an account?- Yes; until the cloth is brought back to the shop.
8327. When the cloth is brought back, the price the wool is deducted?-Yes.
8328. Do you get the balance in money?-Yes always in money, if I like to take it in money.
8329. Do you sometimes take it in goods?-I generally take it in money, because I am not needing goods.
8330. Do you think you would get a bigger price if you took it in goods?-Sometimes it is all the same. This year it is all the same whether you take money or goods.
8331. But some years it is different?-Yes, a little.
8332. Does the merchant tell you generally that he would rather you were to take the price out in goods?-No. The most of the cloth which I have made has been for Mr. Adie, and he gives me the money just soon as the goods.
Brae, January 13, 1872, GIDEON WILLIAMSON, examined.
8333. Are you a fisherman in Muckle Roe?-I am.