244. When you got a settlement and took home some of these soft goods, did you go to your neighbours, or to the baker's or provision dealer's shop, and ask for what you wanted in the way of food?-No; but any neighbours that knew me would take from me some of the goods I had, and perhaps give them to a country friend of theirs, and get the money for them. 245. During the last six years you have got into the way of knitting with your own wool?-Yes. 246. Where do you buy your wool, or how do you get it?-There is a lady in the town-a dressmaker and milliner-who deals very largely in hosiery. 247. What is her name?-Miss Robertson. She takes goods from me on lines which I get for my shawls and she gives me wool and cash to favour me, because she knows I have no other way of getting money. 248. What do you mean by taking goods on lines-When I sell a shawl to any hosiery merchant in the town, I get any sort of goods that are in the shop, except wool to knit with; but if I don't want the goods at the time, then the gentleman will give me a line to the amount I have to get. 249. Is that an I O U?-That used to be on them. I think there are other two letters now; but they mean all the same thing. 250. Have you any of these lines?-I have one home. I shall bring it. If I go back to the shop with the line, or send anybody back with it, the merchant's servants will serve the party who brings it with the amount. 251. They will give you full value for it?-Yes, to the full value of the lines. 252. Then Miss Robertson takes these I O U's from you, and gives you worsted for them?-Yes. 253. That worsted you knit into shawls, and these shawls you sell to the merchants, getting from them I O U's?-Yes. 254. Are you any better off under this system than you were before?-Yes. She brings home the wools, and shows me the invoice for them, and I get the wools at what she pays for them. That is much cheaper than I can purchase them for in Lerwick. 255. But you did not buy the wool under the old way of working: you got the wool supplied to you, and were paid for your work?- Yes. 256. Do you think you make more money under the present system?-Yes. 257. When you get these I O U's, you spend only part of them in purchasing worsted?-I get no worsted on them except what I get from Miss Robertson. 258. But you spend only part of them in paying Miss Robertson for worsted?-Yes; and I get part money from her for them, because they serve her just the same as money would do, in getting articles from the merchants. She favours me in that way, and enables me to support my stepmother and myself, and pay rent and taxation. 259. Do you hand all your I O U's to Miss Robertson?-No; only what I can spare. 260. You sometimes take one of them yourself to the merchant from whom you got it, and you get goods from him for it?-Yes. 261. You have more money passing through your hands now than you had formerly?-Yes. I am able now to pay my rent.