31. How much do you earn by knitting in a week or in a month?-I suppose perhaps about 10s. in a month. I would knit a shawl in a month, and the merchant would allow me that sum for knitting it. 32. Would it take you a month to knit a shawl, working at nothing else?-Yes. Of course I would not be always at it. People cannot sit and knit continually; but it would take a month to make it, working in an ordinary way. 33. When you take that shawl to the shop, price of say 10s. is put upon it, how much of that do you got in money, and how much in goods?-I have knitted a shawl for 10s, and I have got 5s. in money on it from Mr. Linklater. 34. Is that the usual proportion of money you get?-No, not always. Sometimes I don't get so much as that. 35. Did you ever ask for more?-No; I think never asked for any more on one shawl. 36. Supposing you were going with a shawl of that value what goods would you get? Take the last time you went, for instance: what did you get?-Cottons, or such things as I would be requiring. The last time I was there I bought nine yards of cotton at 81/2d. a yard. 37. Was that to make a dress with?-No; it was white cotton. 38. Did you ask for that?-Yes. 39. Did you want it for any particular purpose?-Yes; I wanted it. 40. What else did you get?-That is all I remember getting at that time. 41. Did you get the rest in money?-Yes. 42. Have you any reason to complain of the quality of the goods you get?-No, I have not. 43. Would you wish to go to any other shop if you got money?-I have no reason to leave Mr. Linklater, for he has always given me money as well as I could have got it from any other merchant, I believe. 44. What arrangement do you make about the supplying of the wool?-We make no arrangement. 45. Then you are supplied with the wool; and the 10s. is the price not of the shawl, but of your work upon it?-Yes. 46. Is that the usual way in which the knitting trade is carried on by the women in Shetland?-Yes. 47. Do they generally get the wool supplied to them that way?-I believe they do. At least it is the way with some of them. They won't want it. 48. They don't buy the wool themselves?-They are not able to buy the wool. 49. Have you worked for other merchants than Mr. Linklater?- No; only for him. I have knitted a few things for a lady, but I never knitted to any other merchant than Mr. Linklater. 50. Then you don't know how the other merchants deal with the women who knit for them?-No; I cannot say anything about that. 51. Would you prefer to sell your goods to a private lady, or to a stranger counting to Shetland, rather than have to take them to a merchant?-If I could get all money for them, I would prefer that. 52. Supposing there was a merchant here who paid for goods altogether in money, would you prefer to take your hosiery to him?-Yes; if I could get all money, I would prefer that.