8372. When did you pay that up?-Mr. Inkster paid it up for me. He sent it to Mr. Anderson at the end of the season.
8373. Is that a usual thing to do when a man has shifted?-Yes,
8374. His new employer pays up the whole of his debt?-Yes.
8375. Have you heard of that being done often?-Yes; I have heard of it being done.
Brae, January 13, 1872, GILBERT SCOLLAY, examined.
8376. You are a tenant on the Busta estate?-Yes.
8377. Do you fish any?-No.
8378. I understand you have come here to say something about your line of life and its bearing upon this inquiry: what is it?-My principal means of living is that I get an annuity for keeping some pauper lunatics belonging to several parishes, Delting and Tingwall, and so forth.
8379. What have you got to say about that?-At the time when I commenced to do that, I unfortunately was not clear with the man who now supplies me.
8380. Who is that?-Mr. Thomas Adie.