8344. Are you generally behind at the settlement?-Sometimes I am a little.
8345. But sometimes you have a balance to get in cash?- Sometimes; but sometimes the seasons are so bad that I have to go to him for a little supplies.
8346. I suppose that is the reason why you continue to fish for him? If you owe him a little money, you don't like to go and fish for another man?-I don't see what I could get by fishing for another; I pay him the same for his goods, and he pays me the same for my fish as another would do.
8347. Are his goods of as good a quality as in other shops?-Yes.
8348. Have you known any fishermen who have left one employer and gone to fish for another?-No; not that I could point out.
8349. A man generally continues to fish for the same merchant?- Yes; unless it may be a man who changes and goes south.
8350. But if he remains in the same place, does he generally go on fishing for the same merchant for years?-Yes; but I have heard of some of them shifting.
8351. What do they shift for generally?-They may shift to get chances in boats belonging to other curers.
8352. They think they may be better off perhaps by getting into another crew?-Yes.
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