318. Why? What would you have done with the money if you had had it?-There is many a thing that can be done with money. 319. But had you any particular reason for wanting the money instead of the goods? Did you not want the goods?-I could have been doing at that time without the articles that I got; but I just had to take them, because I could get no more than 2s. in money on the shawl. 320. Is that the usual practice in your dealings with the merchants?-Not always. Sometimes I have seen me getting a few shillings more from her; and at other times, if she did not have a particular order for the articles, she seemed not to be willing to give any, money at all. 321. How do you square your accounts when you get goods in that way? For instance, when you sold that 12s. shawl and got the 2s. in money, did you also get so many yards of cloth?-Yes; of print. 322. At how much?-At 7d. per yard. I also got some wincey. 323. Did that balance the account exactly?-Yes. 324. You got what made exactly the 10s. worth?-Yes. 325. Do you generally take just so much cloth as makes up the value of the shawl?-Yes; generally. 326. Do you do anything else in the way of working for your living than by knitting these articles?-Yes. I am married. 327. Then knitting is an extra sort of thing with you?-Yes. 328. Have you tried any of the other shops in the town to see if they would give you money for your hosiery?-No, none for a good while back; but it is not very much that I can do at it, on account of the house-work. My husband is a shoemaker. 329. Have you ever got lines for your shawls?-No: I generally settle up for the whole in goods at the time when I sell the shawls. 330. Is that all you want to say?-Yes. [Page 7] Lerwick, January 1, 1872, Mrs. JEMIMA BROWN or TAIT, examined. 331. Are you a knitter in Lerwick?-Yes. 332. Do you live with your parents?-Yes. 333. What is your father?-A shoemaker. 334. And you knit for your own benefit?-Yes. 335. For whom do you knit-For Mr. Robert Linklater. 336. What kind of goods do you knit?-Generally veils. 337. How much do you make in a week?-Sometimes 3s., and sometimes not so much, just according as the merchant buys the articles we make. 338. Is it his worsted you work?-Yes. 339. And he pays you so much for the work you put upon it?- Yes. 340. What is the value of the work you put upon the veil?-The last veils I made I got 9d. apiece for them. 341. Does what you get for them depend upon the size of the veils?-A good deal. These were the largest veils of all. 342. Then you will sometimes make four or five of them in a week?-I just made three of these. They were large ones.