293. You said you had known the lines passing from hand to hand before going back to the shop?-Yes; sometimes they do that. 294. That is to say, if you handed a line to a person for money, that person might sell it again for money to another neighbour?-I do not know of selling the lines for money; but they might pass from one person to another in a quiet way. 295. For goods?-Yes; but not for money, so far as I know. 296. For fish?-Yes; I have got that on lines. 297. And bread?-Yes. 298. And then the party from whom the fish or bread was got would hand the line to the merchant?-Yes; and get what things suited them. 299. Is that it common thing in Lerwick?-No, it is not common; but it is the case with me. 300. Have you known any one else who has passed her lines in that way?-Yes; I have heard of some people who have taken lines from others. I know that Miss Hutchison has taken lines from people, and given them money for them. [The witness produced a line, in the following terms: 'C. W. 20.-Cr. Bearer value in goods for thirteen shillings stg. 13s. To hat, 3s. R. SINCLAIR & Co. <pr>. W.T.M. Lerwick, 5. 12. 71.'] I think the letters 'C.W.' are a private mark. It used to be I O U. The entry, 'To hat, 3s.' is an article I have got since, and there is therefore a balance of 10s. left on the line. 301. Have you any particular reason for preferring these lines to the old way of getting goods?-Yes; sometimes I can get the lines turned into cash. 302. You can turn them into money more readily?-Yes; through Miss Robertson taking them from me. 303. Are there many such lines given to people at shops?-Yes. 304. Do most of the people prefer the lines to being paid in goods?-Sometimes they don't perhaps require the articles at the time; but when they require them, they go with the lines and get them. Lerwick, January 1, 1872, Mrs. ANDRINA SIMPSON, examined. 305. Are you a knitter in Lerwick?-Yes. 306. For whom do you knit?-For myself. 307. Have you always done so?-I have always done so for a good many years back. 308. Where do you purchase your wool?-I purchase it just from any person, and I spin it for myself. 309. Do you purchase it from farmers?-Yes. 310. To whom do you sell your work?-To any the merchants who will take it. I generally sold it to Mr. Spence when he was in the town, and to his sister Miss Spence since he went away. 311. Does she still deal in hosiery?-Yes. 312. How are you paid?-Generally just by goods. 313. Do you ask for money?-For the last shawl I sold I asked 2s. in money. She did not appear very willing to give it; but I got 2s. on it, and the rest in goods. 314. What was the value of the shawl?-It was 12s. 315. Did you not ask for more than 2s. upon it?-No. I did not ask for any more, because she did not wish to give any more. 316. You did not ask for the whole price of the shawl in money?- No. 317. Did you want it all in money?-I would have liked it all in money.